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title: The report also noted a sharp increase in the number of people needi… — Mali · tree and pragmatics
description: The report also noted a sharp increase in the number of people needing humanitarian assistance over the previous year. Who acts: report, people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mali» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mali, sentence 194

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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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The report also noted a sharp increase in the number of people needing humanitarian assistance over the previous year.

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**Who acts:** report, people · **What happens:** note, need · **To what, where:** sharp increase, number, humanitarian assistance

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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 (report, people), 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:194
# text = The report also noted a sharp increase in the number of people needing humanitarian assistance over the previous year.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	noted	note	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	needing	need	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	humanitarian	humanitarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **note** | past | the report | a sharp increase |  | the number of people |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent increase=Topic |
| 2 | **need** | gerund | people *not said here* | humanitarian assistance |  |  | year |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot assistance=Theme |

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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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