Niamey, sentence 136

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.

The plan allowed the region to shrink to centralise the area managed, but a 2002 plan instead allowed each municipality to expand within a perimeter to benefit from urban growth.

Who acts: plan, area, 2002 plan · What happens: allow, shrink, centralise, manage, expand, benefit · To what, where: region, 2002 plan, urban growth

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 (plan, area, 2002 plan), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 allowed	nsubj
3	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 region	det
5	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 allowed	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shrink	mark
7	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 region	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 centralise	mark
9	centralise	centralise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 shrink	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 area	det
11	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 managed	nsubj
12	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 centralise	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 allowed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 allowed	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 plan	det
16	2002	2002	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 plan	nummod
17	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 allowed	nsubj:pass
18	instead	instead	ADV	_	19 allowed	advmod
19	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 allowed	conj
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 municipality	det
21	municipality	municipality	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 allowed	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 expand	mark
23	expand	expand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 allowed	xcomp
24	within	within	ADP	_	26 perimeter	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 perimeter	det
26	perimeter	perimeter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 expand	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 benefit	mark
28	benefit	benefit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 expand	advcl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 growth	case
30	urban	urban	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 growth	amod
31	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 benefit	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 allowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	allow	past	the plan	the region			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Beneficiary
2	shrink	to-infinitive	the plan not said here	the region not said here			tree rules
3	centralise	to-infinitive	the plan not said here				tree rules
4	manage	past	the area				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	allow	participle · passive		a 2002 plan		each municipality obj; instead property	tree rules
6	expand not said to happen	to-infinitive	a 2002 plan not said here			within a perimeter	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	benefit	to-infinitive	a 2002 plan not said here		urban growth		vn benefit-72.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Beneficiary from growth=Causer

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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Niamey, sentence 136