Nigeria, sentence 178
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.
However, the elections were marred by violence, and allegations of widespread vote-rigging and electoral malfeasance led to legal battles over the results.
Who acts: violence, allegations · What happens: mar, rig, lead · To what, where: elections, results
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nigeria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (violence, allegations), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 marred | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 elections | det |
| 4 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 marred | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 marred | aux:pass |
| 6 | marred | mar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 violence | case |
| 8 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marred | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 led | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 led | cc |
| 11 | allegations | allegation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 led | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 malfeasance | case |
| 13 | widespread | widespread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 malfeasance | amod |
| 14 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rigging | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 vote | punct |
| 16 | rigging | rig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 widespread | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 electoral | cc |
| 18 | electoral | electoral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 widespread | conj |
| 19 | malfeasance | malfeasance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 allegations | nmod |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 marred | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 battles | case |
| 22 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 battles | amod |
| 23 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 led | obl |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 results | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 results | det |
| 26 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 led | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 marred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mar | past · passive | violence | the elections | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rig | gerund | allegations of widespread malfeasance not said here | vote compound | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | allegations of widespread malfeasance | the results | to legal battles | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to battle=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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