Niger, sentence 105
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 capital of the territory was moved to Zinder in 1912 when the Niger Military Territory was split off from Upper Senegal and Niger, before being moved back to Niamey in 1922 when Niger became a colony within French West Africa.
Who acts: Niger · What happens: move, split off, move back, become · To what, where: capital, Zinder, 1912, Niger Military Territory, 1922, colony
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 (Niger), 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 capital | det |
| 2 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 territory | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 territory | det |
| 5 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 capital | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 moved | aux:pass |
| 7 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Zinder | case |
| 9 | Zinder | Zinder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1912 | case |
| 11 | 1912 | 1912 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 moved | obl |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 split | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Territory | det |
| 14 | Niger | Niger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Territory | compound |
| 15 | Military | Military | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Territory | compound |
| 16 | Territory | Territory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 split | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 split | aux:pass |
| 18 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 moved | advcl |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 split | compound:prt |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Senegal | case |
| 21 | Upper | Upper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Senegal | compound |
| 22 | Senegal | Senegal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 split | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Niger | cc |
| 24 | Niger | Niger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Senegal | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 moved | punct |
| 26 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 28 moved | mark |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 moved | aux:pass |
| 28 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 split | conj |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 moved | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Niamey | case |
| 31 | Niamey | Niamey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 back | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 1922 | case |
| 33 | 1922 | 1922 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 moved | obl |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 became | advmod |
| 35 | Niger | Niger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 became | nsubj |
| 36 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 moved | advcl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 colony | det |
| 38 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 became | xcomp |
| 39 | within | within | ADP | _ | 42 Africa | case |
| 40 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Africa | compound |
| 41 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Africa | compound |
| 42 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 colony | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past · passive | the capital of the territory | Zinder | 1912 | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme to zinder=Source in 1912=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | split off | past · passive | the Niger Military Territory | from Upper Senegal and Niger | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from senegal=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | move back | gerund · passive | 1922 | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: in 1922=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | become | past | Niger | a colony within French West Africa | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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