Niamey, sentence 465
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.
Standpipes are the cheapest source of water, with a cost of 15 francs (3 US cents) for 25 litres, as of 2014.
Who acts: Standpipes · What happens: be, cost · To what, where: cheapest source, 15 francs
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 (Standpipes), 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 | Standpipes | standpipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 source | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 source | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 source | det |
| 4 | cheapest | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 source | amod |
| 5 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 source | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cost | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 cost | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cost | det |
| 11 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 source | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 francs | case |
| 13 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 francs | nummod |
| 14 | francs | franc | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cost | nmod |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 cents | punct |
| 16 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 cents | nummod |
| 17 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 cents | compound |
| 18 | cents | cent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 francs | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 cents | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 litres | case |
| 21 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 litres | nummod |
| 22 | litres | litre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cost | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 2014 | punct |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 26 2014 | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 as | fixed |
| 26 | 2014 | 2014 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 source | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 source | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Standpipes | the cheapest source | of water; a cost of 15 francs for 25 litres parataxis; 2014 parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cost | 15 francs | for 25 litres | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient for=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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