Nigeria, sentence 468
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 Nigerian telecommunications market is one of the fastest-growing in the world, with major emerging market operators (like MTN, 9mobile, Airtel and Globacom) basing their largest and most profitable centres in the country.
Who acts: telecommunications market, major emerging market operators · What happens: be, grow, emerge, base · To what, where: one, world, largest centres, country
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 (telecommunications market, major emerging market operators), 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 | 4 market | det |
| 2 | Nigerian | nigerian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 telecommunications | amod |
| 3 | telecommunications | telecommunication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 market | compound |
| 4 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fastest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fastest | det |
| 9 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 fastest | punct |
| 11 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 fastest | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 growing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 operators | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 operators | case |
| 17 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 operators | amod |
| 18 | emerging | emerge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 operators | amod |
| 19 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 operators | compound |
| 20 | operators | operator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 growing | obl |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 MTN | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 MTN | case |
| 23 | MTN | MTN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 operators | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mobile | punct |
| 25 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 mobile | nummod |
| 26 | mobile | mobile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 MTN | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Airtel | punct |
| 28 | Airtel | Airtel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 MTN | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Globacom | cc |
| 30 | Globacom | Globacom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 MTN | conj |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 MTN | punct |
| 32 | basing | base | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 operators | acl |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 centres | nmod:poss |
| 34 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 centres | amod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 profitable | cc |
| 36 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 37 profitable | advmod |
| 37 | profitable | profitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 largest | conj |
| 38 | centres | centre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 basing | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 country | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 country | det |
| 41 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 basing | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the telecommunications market | one | of the fastest | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | gerund | the world | with major emerging market operators | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | ||||
| 3 | emerge | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | base | gerund | major emerging market operators not said here | MTN's largest centres | the country | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent centre=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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