Nigeria, sentence 301
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.
The Senate is a 109-seat body with three members from each state and one from the capital region of Abuja; members are elected by popular vote to four-year terms.
Who acts: Senate, popular vote · What happens: be, elect · To what, where: seat body, members
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 (Senate, popular vote), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Senate | det |
| 2 | Senate | Senate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 body | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 body | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 5 | 109 | 109 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 seat | nummod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 109 | punct |
| 7 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 body | compound |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 members | case |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 members | nummod |
| 11 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 body | nmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 state | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 state | det |
| 14 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 members | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 region | cc |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 region | nummod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 region | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 region | det |
| 19 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 region | compound |
| 20 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 members | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Abuja | case |
| 22 | Abuja | Abuja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 region | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 elected | punct |
| 24 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 elected | aux:pass |
| 26 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 body | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 vote | case |
| 28 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 vote | amod |
| 29 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 elected | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 terms | case |
| 31 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 year | nummod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 four | punct |
| 33 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 terms | compound |
| 34 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 elected | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 body | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Senate | a seat body | with three members from each state and the one capital region of Abuja | tree rules | |||
| 2 | elect | present · passive | popular vote | members | to year terms | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to term=Attribute |
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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