Nigeria, sentence 306
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.
By convention, presidential candidates take a running mate (candidate for the vice presidency) who is both ethnically and religiously the opposite of themselves.
Who acts: presidential candidates, running mate · What happens: take, be · To what, where: running mate, opposite
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 (presidential candidates, running mate), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 convention | case |
| 2 | convention | convention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 convention | punct |
| 4 | presidential | presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 candidates | amod |
| 5 | candidates | candidate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 take | nsubj |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mate | det |
| 8 | running | running | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mate | compound |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 candidate | punct |
| 11 | candidate | candidate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mate | appos |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 presidency | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 presidency | det |
| 14 | vice | vice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 presidency | compound |
| 15 | presidency | presidency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 candidate | nmod |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 candidate | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 opposite | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 opposite | cop |
| 19 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 20 ethnically | cc:preconj |
| 20 | ethnically | ethnically | ADV | _ | 24 opposite | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 religiously | cc |
| 22 | religiously | religiously | ADV | _ | 20 ethnically | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 opposite | det |
| 24 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mate | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 themselves | case |
| 26 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 opposite | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | presidential candidates | a running mate and the opposite | by convention | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a running mate and the opposite | the opposite | of mate; ethnically property | tree rules |
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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