Niger, sentence 9
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.
Since obtaining independence in 1960, Niger has experienced five coups d'état and four periods of military rule.
Who acts: Niger · What happens: obtain, experience · To what, where: independence, 1960, coups d'état
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 (Niger), 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 2 obtaining | mark |
| 2 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 experienced | advcl |
| 3 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 obtaining | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1960 | case |
| 5 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 obtaining | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 obtaining | punct |
| 7 | Niger | Niger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 experienced | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 experienced | aux |
| 9 | experienced | experience | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 coups | nummod |
| 11 | coups | coup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 d'état | compound |
| 12 | d'état | d'état | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 experienced | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 periods | cc |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 periods | nummod |
| 15 | periods | period | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 d'état | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 rule | case |
| 17 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rule | amod |
| 18 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 periods | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 experienced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | gerund | Niger not said here | independence | 1960 | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset independence=Theme | |||
| 2 | experience | present · perfect | Niger | coups d'état and four periods of military rule | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer d'état=Stimulus |
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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