Niger, sentence 392

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.

Radio is the most important medium, as television sets are beyond the buying power of many of the rural poor, and illiteracy prevents print media from becoming a mass medium.

Who acts: Radio, television sets, illiteracy · What happens: be, buy, prevent, become · To what, where: important medium, print media, mass medium

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 (Radio, television sets, illiteracy), 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	Radio	Radio	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 medium	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 medium	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 medium	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 important	advmod
5	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 medium	amod
6	medium	medium	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 power	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 power	mark
9	television	television	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sets	compound
10	sets	set	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 power	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 power	cop
12	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	15 power	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 power	det
14	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 power	amod
15	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 medium	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 many	case
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 power	amod
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 poor	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 poor	det
20	rural	rural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 poor	amod
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 many	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 prevents	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 prevents	cc
24	illiteracy	illiteracy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 prevents	nsubj
25	prevents	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 medium	parataxis
26	print	print	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 media	amod
27	media	media	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 prevents	obj
28	from	from	SCONJ	_	29 becoming	mark
29	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 prevents	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 medium	det
31	mass	mass	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 medium	amod
32	medium	medium	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 becoming	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 medium	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Radio	the important medium and the buying power		tree rules
2	buy	gerund				vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	television sets		beyond the buying power	tree rules
4	prevent	present	illiteracy	print media		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer media=Theme
5	become	gerund	illiteracy not said here	a mass medium		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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Niger», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Niger, sentence 392