Nigeria, sentence 333
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.
It subsequently became the primary military and financial backbone—acting as the regional standard-bearer—for the ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), leading peacekeeping and intervention efforts during the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Who acts: role · What happens: become, act, lead · To what, where: primary military backbone, peacekeeping
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 (role), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 became | nsubj |
| 2 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 3 became | advmod |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 backbone | det |
| 5 | primary | primary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 backbone | amod |
| 6 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 backbone | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 financial | cc |
| 8 | financial | financial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 military | conj |
| 9 | backbone | backbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | xcomp |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 acting | punct |
| 11 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 became | advcl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 bearer | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bearer | det |
| 14 | regional | regional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bearer | amod |
| 15 | standard | standard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bearer | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 standard | punct |
| 17 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 acting | obl |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Group | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 Group | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Group | det |
| 21 | ECOWAS | ECOWAS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Monitoring | compound |
| 22 | Monitoring | Monitoring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Group | compound |
| 23 | Group | Group | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 acting | obl |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 ECOMOG | punct |
| 25 | ECOMOG | ecomog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Group | appos |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 ECOMOG | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 leading | punct |
| 28 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 acting | conj |
| 29 | peacekeeping | peacekeeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 leading | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 efforts | cc |
| 31 | intervention | intervention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 efforts | compound |
| 32 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 peacekeeping | conj |
| 33 | during | during | ADP | _ | 36 wars | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 wars | det |
| 35 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 wars | amod |
| 36 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 leading | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 Liberia | case |
| 38 | Liberia | Liberia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 wars | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 Sierra | cc |
| 40 | Sierra | Sierra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Liberia | conj |
| 41 | Leone | Leone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Sierra | flat |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | role | the primary military backbone | subsequently property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | act | gerund | role not said here | as the regional standard bearer; for the Monitoring Group | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as bearer=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | lead | gerund | role not said here | peacekeeping and intervention efforts | during the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peacekeeping=Theme |
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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