Nigeria, sentence 156
From Wikipedia, «Nigeria», 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.
Estimates of the number of dead in the former Eastern Region during the 30-month civil war range from one to three million.
What happens: estimate · To what, where: Estimates, number
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Estimates | estimate | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 number | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 number | det |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Estimates | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dead | case |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 number | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Region | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Region | det |
| 9 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Region | amod |
| 10 | Eastern | Eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Region | amod |
| 11 | Region | Region | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dead | nmod |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 range | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 range | det |
| 14 | 30-month | 30-month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 range | nsubj |
| 15 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 range | amod |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 range | compound |
| 17 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Region | nmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 million | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 million | compound |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 three | case |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 one | nmod |
| 22 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 range | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Estimates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | estimate | the number of dead in the former Eastern Region during the civil war range 30-month from one million | nom estimate «cognition transitive»: of=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.
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