Nigeria, sentence 506
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.
Road bandits often take advantage of this situation for their criminal purposes.
Who acts: Road bandits, bandits · What happens: take, purpose · To what, where: advantage
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 (Road bandits, bandits), 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 | Road | road | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bandits | amod |
| 2 | bandits | bandit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 take | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 situation | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 situation | det |
| 8 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 advantage | nmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 purposes | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 purposes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | criminal | criminal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 purposes | amod |
| 12 | purposes | purpose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Road bandits | advantage of this situation | for bandits's criminal purposes; often property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme for purpose=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | purpose | bandits = bandit | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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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