Niamey, sentence 79
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.
As the city's population increased—from 5,000 in 1941 to 7,500 in 1945—the remaining colonial administrators were unable to enforce property ownership laws, resulting in many people acquiring land from indigenous chiefs.
Who acts: remaining colonial administrators, many people · What happens: increase, be, enforce, result, acquire · To what, where: 5,000, property, land, indigenous chiefs
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 (remaining colonial administrators, many people), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 5 population | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 city | det |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 population | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 city | case |
| 5 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 increased | obl |
| 6 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 5,000 | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 5,000 | case |
| 9 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 increased | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1941 | case |
| 11 | 1941 | 1941 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 5,000 | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 7,500 | case |
| 13 | 7,500 | 7,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 5,000 | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 1945 | case |
| 15 | 1945 | 1945 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 7,500 | nmod |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 unable | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 administrators | det |
| 18 | remaining | remaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 administrators | amod |
| 19 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 administrators | amod |
| 20 | administrators | administrator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 unable | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 unable | cop |
| 22 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 increased | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 enforce | mark |
| 24 | enforce | enforce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 unable | xcomp |
| 25 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 enforce | obj |
| 26 | ownership | ownership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 laws | compound |
| 27 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 enforce | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 resulting | punct |
| 29 | resulting | result | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 increased | advcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 people | case |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 people | amod |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 resulting | obl |
| 33 | acquiring | acquire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 people | acl |
| 34 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 acquiring | obj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 chiefs | case |
| 36 | indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 chiefs | amod |
| 37 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 acquiring | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | past | 5,000 in 1941 to 7,500 in 1945 | as the city's population | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the remaining colonial administrators | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enforce | to-infinitive | the remaining colonial administrators not said here | property | ownership laws obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | result | gerund | in many people | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in people=Location | |||||
| 5 | acquire | gerund | many people not said here | land | indigenous chiefs | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent land=Theme from chief=Source |
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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