Niamey, sentence 154
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 city's height above sea level mostly ranges from 190 m to 230 m on the left bank and from 180 m to 185 m on the right bank; the highest point, Trois Sœurs, reaches 250 m.
Who acts: height, highest point · What happens: range, reach · To what, where: 190 m, 250 m.
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 (height, highest point), 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 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 height | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 city | case |
| 4 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ranges | nsubj |
| 5 | above | above | ADP | _ | 7 level | case |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 level | compound |
| 7 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 height | nmod |
| 8 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 9 ranges | advmod |
| 9 | ranges | range | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 m | case |
| 11 | 190 | 190 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 m | nummod |
| 12 | m | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ranges | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 m | case |
| 14 | 230 | 230 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 m | nummod |
| 15 | m | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ranges | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 bank | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bank | det |
| 18 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bank | amod |
| 19 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 m | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 m | cc |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 m | case |
| 22 | 180 | 180 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 m | nummod |
| 23 | m | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 m | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 m | case |
| 25 | 185 | 185 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 m | nummod |
| 26 | m | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ranges | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 bank | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bank | det |
| 29 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bank | amod |
| 30 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 m | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 point | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 point | det |
| 33 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 point | amod |
| 34 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 reaches | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Sœurs | punct |
| 36 | Trois | Trois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Sœurs | compound |
| 37 | Sœurs | Sœur | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 point | appos |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 reaches | punct |
| 39 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ranges | conj |
| 40 | 250 | 250 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 m. | nummod |
| 41 | m. | m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 reaches | obj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | range | present | the city's height above sea level | 190 m | to 230 m on the left bank and 180 m; to 185 m on the right bank; mostly property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from m=Location | |||
| 2 | reach | present | the highest point | 250 m. | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent m.=Theme |
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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