Niamey, sentence 408
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.
Niamey is crossed by the RN1 highway (or La Route de l'Unité), connecting it to N'guigmi on the eastern edge of Niger.
Who acts: RN1 highway · What happens: cross, connect · To what, where: Niamey, l'Unité, N'guigmi, eastern edge
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 (RN1 highway), 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 | Niamey | niamey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossed | aux:pass |
| 3 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 highway | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 highway | det |
| 6 | RN1 | RN1 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 highway | compound |
| 7 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | obl |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 l'Unité | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 l'Unité | cc |
| 10 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 l'Unité | compound |
| 11 | Route | Route | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 La | flat |
| 12 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 La | flat |
| 13 | l'Unité | l'unité | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 highway | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 l'Unité | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 connecting | punct |
| 16 | connecting | connect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 crossed | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 connecting | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 N'guigmi | case |
| 19 | N'guigmi | N'guigmi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 connecting | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 edge | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 edge | det |
| 22 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 edge | amod |
| 23 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 connecting | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Niger | case |
| 25 | Niger | Niger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 edge | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | present · passive | the RN1 highway | Niamey | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | connect | gerund | the RN1 highway not said here | l'Unité | N'guigmi | the eastern edge of Niger | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to n'guigmi=Co-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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