Niger, sentence 12
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 Hausa are the largest ethnic group, making up around 56% of the population.
Who acts: Hausa, largest ethnic group · What happens: be, make up · To what, where: largest ethnic group
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 (Hausa, largest ethnic group), 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 Hausa | det |
| 2 | Hausa | Hausa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 group | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 group | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 5 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 group | amod |
| 6 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 group | amod |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 making | punct |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 group | acl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 making | compound:prt |
| 11 | around | around | ADV | _ | 12 56 | advmod |
| 12 | 56 | 56 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 % | nummod |
| 13 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 9 making | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 population | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 population | det |
| 16 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 % | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 group | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Hausa | the largest ethnic group | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make up | gerund | the largest ethnic group not said here | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Pivot |
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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