Nigeria, sentence 229
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.
Nigeria is located in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea and has a total area of 923768 km2, making it the world's 31st-largest country.
What happens: locate, have, make · To what, where: Nigeria, western Africa, total area, area
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: 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 | Nigeria | Nigeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 located | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 located | aux:pass |
| 3 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Africa | case |
| 5 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Africa | amod |
| 6 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 located | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Gulf | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Gulf | det |
| 9 | Gulf | Gulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 located | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Guinea | case |
| 11 | Guinea | Guinea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Gulf | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 has | cc |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 located | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 area | det |
| 15 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 area | amod |
| 16 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 923768 | case |
| 18 | 923768 | 923768 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 area | nmod |
| 19 | km2 | km2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 923768 | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 making | punct |
| 21 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 has | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 making | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 31st | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 world | case |
| 26 | 31st | 31st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 making | obj |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 largest | punct |
| 28 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 country | amod |
| 29 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 31st | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 located | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | present · passive | Nigeria | western Africa | on the Gulf of Guinea | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | a total area of 923768 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Patient | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | area | the world's 31st and largest country obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary 31st=Product |
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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