Niger, sentence 138
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.
Kountché died in November 1987 from a brain tumour and was succeeded by his chief of staff, Colonel Ali Saibou who was confirmed as Chief of the Supreme Military Council.
Who acts: Kountché, chief · What happens: die, succeed, confirm · To what, where: brain tumour, Colonel Ali
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 (Kountché, chief), 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 | Kountché | Kountché | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 died | nsubj |
| 2 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 November | case |
| 4 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 died | obl |
| 5 | 1987 | 1987 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 November | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 tumour | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tumour | det |
| 8 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tumour | compound |
| 9 | tumour | tumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 died | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 succeeded | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 succeeded | aux:pass |
| 12 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 died | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 chief | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 chief | nmod:poss |
| 15 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 succeeded | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 staff | case |
| 17 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chief | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ali | punct |
| 19 | Colonel | Colonel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ali | compound |
| 20 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 chief | nmod |
| 21 | Saibou | Saibou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ali | flat |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 confirmed | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 confirmed | aux:pass |
| 24 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Ali | acl:relcl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 Chief | case |
| 26 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 confirmed | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Council | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Council | det |
| 29 | Supreme | Supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Council | amod |
| 30 | Military | Military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Council | amod |
| 31 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Chief | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Kountché | a brain tumour | november | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from tumour=Causer | |||
| 2 | succeed | past · passive | Kountché's chief of staff Colonel Ali | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | confirm | past · passive | Colonel Ali | as Chief of the Supreme Military Council | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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