Niger, sentence 181
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.
Tandja modified and adopted a new constitution by referendum, which was declared illegal by the Constitutional Court, prompting Tandja to dissolve the court and assume emergency powers.
Who acts: Tandja, Constitutional Court · What happens: modify, adopt, declare, prompt, dissolve, assume · To what, where: new constitution, referendum, Tandja, court, emergency powers
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 (Tandja, Constitutional Court), 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 | Tandja | Tandja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 modified | nsubj |
| 2 | modified | modify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 adopted | cc |
| 4 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 modified | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 constitution | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 constitution | amod |
| 7 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adopted | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 referendum | case |
| 9 | referendum | referendum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adopted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 declared | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 declared | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 declared | aux:pass |
| 13 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 referendum | acl:relcl |
| 14 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 declared | xcomp |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Court | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Court | det |
| 17 | Constitutional | Constitutional | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Court | compound |
| 18 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 declared | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 prompting | punct |
| 20 | prompting | prompt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 declared | advcl |
| 21 | Tandja | Tandja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 prompting | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 dissolve | mark |
| 23 | dissolve | dissolve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 prompting | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 court | det |
| 25 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dissolve | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 assume | cc |
| 27 | assume | assume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 dissolve | conj |
| 28 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 powers | compound |
| 29 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 assume | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 modified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | modify | past | Tandja | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | adopt | past | Tandja not said here | a new constitution | by referendum | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Theme | |||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past · passive | the Constitutional Court | referendum | illegal property | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute | |||
| 4 | prompt | gerund | the Constitutional Court not said here | Tandja | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dissolve | to-infinitive | the Constitutional Court not said here | the court | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Patient | ||||
| 6 | assume | infinitive | the Constitutional Court not said here | emergency powers | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |
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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