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title: Working to control and resolve regional conflicts—such as in Ivory C… — Mali · tree and pragmatics
description: Working to control and resolve regional conflicts—such as in Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—is one of its major foreign policy goals. Who acts: Working. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mali» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mali, sentence 260

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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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Working to control and resolve regional conflicts—such as in Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—is one of its major foreign policy goals.

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**Who acts:** Working · **What happens:** work, control, resolve, be · **To what, where:** regional conflicts, one

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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 (Working), 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:260
# text = Working to control and resolve regional conflicts—such as in Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—is one of its major foreign policy goals.
1	Working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	resolve	resolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	conflicts	conflict	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Ivory	Ivory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Liberia	Liberia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	Leone	Leone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
25	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	goals	goal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **control** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **resolve** | infinitive |  | regional conflicts |  |  |  | such Ivory Coast and Liberia and Sierra | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Working | one |  |  |  | of conflict's major foreign policy goals | tree rules |

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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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