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title: On 2 May, the military government announced breaking its defence acc… — Mali · tree and pragmatics
description: On 2 May, the military government announced breaking its defence accords concluded in 2013 with France, constituting an additional step in the deterioration of Malian–French relations. Who acts: military government, Malian French relations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mali» with its dependency tree a
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# Mali, sentence 191

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From Wikipedia, [«Mali»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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On 2 May, the military government announced breaking its defence accords concluded in 2013 with France, constituting an additional step in the deterioration of Malian–French relations.

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**Who acts:** military government, Malian French relations · **What happens:** announce, break, conclude, constitute, deteriorate · **To what, where:** defence accords, 2013, additional step, deterioration

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mali». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (military government, Malian French relations), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Mali:191
# text = On 2 May, the military government announced breaking its defence accords concluded in 2013 with France, constituting an additional step in the deterioration of Malian–French relations.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	accords	accord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	constituting	constitute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	additional	additional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	deterioration	deterioration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	Malian	malian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the military government |  |  |  | may |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **break** | gerund | the military government *not said here* | end's defence accords |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer accord=Patient |
| 3 | **conclude** | participle |  | end's defence accords *not said here* |  | 2013 |  | with France | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with france=Subeventuality |
| 4 | **constitute** | gerund | the military government *not said here* | a additional step |  | the deterioration of Malian French relations |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Pivot |
| 5 | **deteriorate** |  | Malian French relations |  |  |  |  |  | nom deterioration «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Mali», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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