Nigeria, sentence 41
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 Kingdom of Nri of the Igbo people consolidated in the 10th century and continued until it lost its sovereignty to the British in 1911.
Who acts: Kingdom, Chronicle · What happens: consolidate, continue, lose · To what, where: Igbo people, sovereignty, 1911
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 (Kingdom, Chronicle), 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 Kingdom | det |
| 2 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Nri | case |
| 4 | Nri | Nri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kingdom | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 7 | Igbo | Igbo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 people | compound |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Kingdom | nmod |
| 9 | consolidated | consolidate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 people | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 century | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 century | det |
| 12 | 10th | 10th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 13 century | amod |
| 13 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 consolidated | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 Kingdom | cc |
| 15 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 lost | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lost | nsubj |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 continued | ccomp |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sovereignty | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sovereignty | sovereignty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lost | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 British | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 British | det |
| 23 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lost | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 1911 | case |
| 25 | 1911 | 1911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 lost | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consolidate | participle | the Igbo people not said here | century | vn amalgamate-22.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | the Kingdom of Nri of the Igbo people | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | lose | past | Chronicle | Chronicle's sovereignty | 1911 | to the British | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereignty=Eventuality |
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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