Niamey, sentence 99
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.
A new city plan was drafted in 1961 by the French firm Kalt, Pourdaier-Duteil, and Raymond, which zoned the former indigenous quarter for a higher density than the former European quarter.
Who acts: French firm, Raymond · What happens: draft, zone · To what, where: new city plan, 1961, former indigenous quarter
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 (French firm, Raymond), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 plan | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 plan | amod |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plan | compound |
| 4 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drafted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drafted | aux:pass |
| 6 | drafted | draft | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1961 | case |
| 8 | 1961 | 1961 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 drafted | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 firm | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 firm | det |
| 11 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 firm | amod |
| 12 | firm | firm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drafted | obl |
| 13 | Kalt | Kalt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 firm | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Pourdaier | punct |
| 15 | Pourdaier | Pourdaier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kalt | flat |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Duteil | punct |
| 17 | Duteil | Duteil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kalt | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Raymond | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Raymond | cc |
| 20 | Raymond | Raymond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 drafted | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 zoned | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 zoned | nsubj |
| 23 | zoned | zone | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Raymond | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 quarter | det |
| 25 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 quarter | amod |
| 26 | indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 quarter | amod |
| 27 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 zoned | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 density | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 density | det |
| 30 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 density | amod |
| 31 | density | density | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 zoned | obl |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 36 quarter | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 quarter | det |
| 34 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 quarter | amod |
| 35 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 quarter | amod |
| 36 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 zoned | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drafted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draft | past · passive | the French firm | a new city plan | 1961 | Raymond obl | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result | ||
| 2 | zone | past | Raymond | the former indigenous quarter | for a higher density; than the former European quarter | tree rules |
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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