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title: This conflict also plays a role in the continuing northern Mali conf… — Mali · tree and pragmatics
description: This conflict also plays a role in the continuing northern Mali conflict where there is a tension between both Tuaregs and the Malian government, and the Tuaregs and Jihadist militias who are trying to establish sharia. Who acts: conflict, tension, Jihadist militias. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mali»
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# Mali, sentence 387

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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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This conflict also plays a role in the continuing northern Mali conflict where there is a tension between both Tuaregs and the Malian government, and the Tuaregs and Jihadist militias who are trying to establish sharia.

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**Who acts:** conflict, tension, Jihadist militias · **What happens:** play, continue, be, try, establish · **To what, where:** role, northern Mali conflict, sharia

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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 (conflict, tension, Jihadist militias), 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:387
# text = This conflict also plays a role in the continuing northern Mali conflict where there is a tension between both Tuaregs and the Malian government, and the Tuaregs and Jihadist militias who are trying to establish sharia.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	continuing	continue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	nsubj	_	_
10	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Mali	Mali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tension	tension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	between	between	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	Tuaregs	Tuareg	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Malian	malian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Tuaregs	Tuareg	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	Jihadist	Jihadist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	militias	militia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	sharia	sharia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | this conflict | a role |  | the northern Mali conflict |  | the Tuaregs and Jihadist militias *obl* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |
| 2 | **continue** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | present | a tension between both Tuaregs and the Malian government |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **try** | present · progressive | Jihadist militias |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **establish** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jihadist militias *not said here* | sharia |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sharia=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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