Nigeria, sentence 385
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 Government blamed ISWAP for the murder of over 50 parishioners, but locals suspect Fulani herdsmen's involvement.
Who acts: Government, locals · What happens: blame, murder, involve · To what, where: ISWAP, 50 parishioners
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 (Government, locals), 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 Government | det |
| 2 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blamed | nsubj |
| 3 | blamed | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ISWAP | iswap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blamed | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 murder | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 murder | det |
| 7 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blamed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 parishioners | case |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 50 | advmod |
| 10 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 parishioners | nummod |
| 11 | parishioners | parishioner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 murder | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 involvement | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 involvement | cc |
| 14 | locals | local | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 involvement | nmod:poss |
| 15 | suspect | suspect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 herdsmen | amod |
| 16 | Fulani | Fulani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 herdsmen | compound |
| 17 | herdsmen | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 locals | conj |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 herdsmen | case |
| 19 | involvement | involvement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blamed | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | past | the Government | ISWAP | for the murder of 50 parishioners; locals and suspect Fulani herdsmen's involvement parataxis | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent iswap=Theme for murder=Attribute | |||
| 2 | murder | 50 parishioners | nom murder «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | involve | locals and suspect Fulani herdsmen | nom involvement «act transitive»: poss=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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