Nigeria, sentence 194
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.
In 1995, Abacha's regime hanged environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa on trumped-up charges in the deaths of four Ogoni elders, which caused Nigerian's suspension from the Commonwealth.
Who acts: four Ogoni elders · What happens: trump, cause, die · To what, where: suspension, Commonwealth, 1995
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 (four Ogoni elders), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1995 | case |
| 2 | 1995 | 1995 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1995 | punct |
| 4 | Abacha | Abacha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 environmentalist | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Abacha | case |
| 6 | regime | regime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 environmentalist | compound |
| 7 | hanged | hanged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 environmentalist | amod |
| 8 | environmentalist | environmentalist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Ken | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Ken | Ken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 1995 | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | Saro | Saro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ken | flat |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wiwa | punct |
| 12 | Wiwa | Wiwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ken | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 charges | case |
| 14 | trumped | trump | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 charges | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 trumped | punct |
| 16 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 charges | compound |
| 17 | charges | charge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Ken | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 deaths | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 deaths | det |
| 20 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 charges | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 elders | case |
| 22 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 elders | nummod |
| 23 | Ogoni | Ogoni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 elders | compound |
| 24 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 deaths | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 caused | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 caused | nsubj |
| 27 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 elders | acl:relcl |
| 28 | Nigerian | Nigerian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 suspension | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Nigerian | case |
| 30 | suspension | suspension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 caused | obj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 Commonwealth | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Commonwealth | det |
| 33 | Commonwealth | Commonwealth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 caused | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trump | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | cause | past | four Ogoni elders | Nigerian's suspension | the Commonwealth | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition suspension=Patient | |||
| 4 | die | four Ogoni elders | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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