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title: The vast northern desert has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate cl… — Mali · tree and pragmatics
description: The vast northern desert has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh) with long, extremely hot summers and scarce rainfall which decreases northwards. Who acts: vast northern desert, scarce rainfall. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mali» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mali, sentence 218

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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 vast northern desert has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh) with long, extremely hot summers and scarce rainfall which decreases northwards.

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**Who acts:** vast northern desert, scarce rainfall · **What happens:** have, decrease · **To what, where:** hot desert climate

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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 (vast northern desert, scarce rainfall), 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:218
# text = The vast northern desert has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh) with long, extremely hot summers and scarce rainfall which decreases northwards.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Köppen	Köppen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	classification	classification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	BWh	BWh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	summers	summer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	decreases	decrease	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	northwards	northwards	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the vast northern desert | a hot desert climate |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climate=Patient |
| 2 | **decrease** | present | scarce rainfall |  |  |  |  | northwards *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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