Niamey, sentence 128
From Wikipedia, «Niamey», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In 1993, the year Mahamane Ousmane became the first democratically elected president, Niamey had high rates of poverty and unemployment as public-sector jobs decreased.
Who acts: Mahamane, Niamey · What happens: become, elect, have, decrease · To what, where: first elected president, 1993, high rates, sector jobs
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Niamey». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mahamane, Niamey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1993 | case |
| 2 | 1993 | 1993 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 became | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1993 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Mahamane | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Mahamane | Mahamane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 became | nsubj |
| 7 | Ousmane | Ousmane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mahamane | flat |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 president | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 president | amod |
| 11 | democratically | democratically | ADV | _ | 12 elected | advmod |
| 12 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 president | amod |
| 13 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 15 | Niamey | Niamey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 became | conj |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rates | amod |
| 18 | rates | rate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 poverty | case |
| 20 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rates | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 unemployment | cc |
| 22 | unemployment | unemployment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 poverty | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 jobs | case |
| 24 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sector | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 public | punct |
| 26 | sector | sector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 jobs | compound |
| 27 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obl |
| 28 | decreased | decrease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 jobs | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Mahamane the year | the first elected president | in 1993 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1993=Result | |||
| 2 | elect | participle | democratically property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Niamey | high rates of poverty and unemployment | as sector jobs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rate=Patient | |||
| 4 | decrease | participle | sector jobs not said here | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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