Niger, sentence 76
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.
Their organisation was hierarchical and somewhat democratic: the Hausa kings were elected by the notables of the country and could be removed by them.
Who acts: organisation, notables, kingdoms · What happens: be, elect, remove · To what, where: Hausa kings
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 (organisation, notables, kingdoms), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 organisation | nmod:poss |
| 2 | organisation | organisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hierarchical | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hierarchical | cop |
| 4 | hierarchical | hierarchical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 democratic | cc |
| 6 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 7 democratic | advmod |
| 7 | democratic | democratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hierarchical | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 elected | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kings | det |
| 10 | Hausa | Hausa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kings | compound |
| 11 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 elected | aux:pass |
| 13 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hierarchical | parataxis |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 notables | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 notables | det |
| 16 | notables | notable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 elected | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 notables | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 removed | cc |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 removed | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 removed | aux:pass |
| 23 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 elected | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 removed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hierarchical | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | kingdoms's organisation | hierarchical property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | kingdoms's organisation not said here | somewhat property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | elect | past · passive | the notables of the country | the Hausa kings | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | remove | could · passive | kingdoms = kingdom | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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