Niamey, sentence 375
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 government ran radio broadcasts in the city since independence; the Office of Radio and Television of Niger was formed in 1967 to broadcast government propaganda, which continued until democratisation in 1990.
Who acts: government, government propaganda · What happens: run, form, broadcast, continue · To what, where: radio broadcasts, city, Office, 1967, government propaganda, 1990
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 (government, government propaganda), 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 government | det |
| 2 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broadcasts | compound |
| 5 | broadcasts | broadcast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 9 | since | since | ADP | _ | 10 independence | case |
| 10 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 formed | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Office | det |
| 13 | Office | Office | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 formed | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Radio | case |
| 15 | Radio | Radio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Office | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Television | cc |
| 17 | Television | Television | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Office | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Niger | case |
| 19 | Niger | Niger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Television | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 formed | aux:pass |
| 21 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ran | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1967 | case |
| 23 | 1967 | 1967 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 formed | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 broadcast | mark |
| 25 | broadcast | broadcast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 formed | advcl |
| 26 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 propaganda | compound |
| 27 | propaganda | propaganda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 broadcast | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 continued | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 continued | nsubj |
| 30 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 propaganda | acl:relcl |
| 31 | until | until | ADP | _ | 32 democratisation | case |
| 32 | democratisation | democratisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 continued | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 1990 | case |
| 34 | 1990 | 1990 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 continued | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the government | radio broadcasts | the city | since independence | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent broadcast=Theme in city=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | form | past · passive | the Office of Radio and Television of Niger | 1967 | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | broadcast speech: other | to-infinitive | government propaganda | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent propaganda=Topic | |||||
| 4 | continue | past | government propaganda | 1990 | until democratisation | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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