Niger, sentence 104
From Wikipedia, «Niger», 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 border with Britain's colony of Nigeria to the south was finalised in 1910, a rough delimitation having already been agreed by the two powers via treaties during the period 1898–1906.
Who acts: two powers · What happens: finalis, agree · To what, where: border, 1910, rough delimitation
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Niger». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two powers), 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 border | det |
| 2 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finalised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 colony | case |
| 4 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 colony | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Britain | case |
| 6 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 border | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Nigeria | case |
| 8 | Nigeria | Nigeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 colony | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 south | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 south | det |
| 11 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 colony | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 finalised | aux:pass |
| 13 | finalised | finalis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 1910 | case |
| 15 | 1910 | 1910 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 finalised | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 agreed | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 delimitation | det |
| 18 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 delimitation | amod |
| 19 | delimitation | delimitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 agreed | aux |
| 21 | already | already | ADV | _ | 23 agreed | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 agreed | aux:pass |
| 23 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 finalised | advcl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 powers | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 powers | det |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 powers | nummod |
| 27 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 agreed | obl |
| 28 | via | via | ADP | _ | 29 treaties | case |
| 29 | treaties | treaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 powers | nmod |
| 30 | during | during | ADP | _ | 32 period | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 period | det |
| 32 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 agreed | obl |
| 33 | 1898 | 1898 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 period | flat |
| 34 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 35 1906 | case |
| 35 | 1906 | 1906 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 1898 | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 finalised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finalis | past · passive | the border with Britain's colony of Nigeria to the south | 1910 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | gerund · perfect · passive | the two powers via treaties | a rough delimitation | during the period | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
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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