Niamey, sentence 255
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.
Since Niamey's establishment as a city, the vast majority of its population has been migrants and their children.
Who acts: vast majority, Niamey · What happens: be, establish · To what, where: migrants
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 (vast majority, 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 4 establishment | case |
| 2 | Niamey | Niamey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 establishment | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Niamey | case |
| 4 | establishment | establishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 migrants | obl |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 establishment | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 establishment | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 majority | det |
| 10 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 majority | amod |
| 11 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 migrants | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 population | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 population | nmod:poss |
| 14 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 majority | nmod |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 migrants | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 migrants | cop |
| 17 | migrants | migrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 children | cc |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 children | nmod:poss |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 migrants | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 migrants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | the vast majority of city's population | migrants and migrants's children | since Niamey's establishment as a city | migrants's children conj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | establish | Niamey | as a city | nom establishment «act transitive»: poss=agent as=obl |
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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