Nigeria, sentence 52
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.
He complained about slave raids on the local Muslim population by Judham Arabs, who he described as polytheists who deviated from true religion.
Who acts: Mai, Judham Arabs, polytheists · What happens: complain, describe, deviate · To what, where: local Muslim population
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 (Mai, Judham Arabs, polytheists), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 complained | nsubj |
| 2 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 raids | case |
| 4 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raids | compound |
| 5 | raids | raid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 complained | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 population | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 population | det |
| 8 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 population | amod |
| 9 | Muslim | Muslim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 population | amod |
| 10 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 complained | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Arabs | case |
| 12 | Judham | Judham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Arabs | compound |
| 13 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 population | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 described | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 described | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 described | nsubj |
| 17 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Arabs | acl:relcl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 polytheists | case |
| 19 | polytheists | polytheist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 described | obl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 deviated | nsubj |
| 21 | deviated | deviate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 polytheists | acl:relcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 religion | case |
| 23 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 religion | amod |
| 24 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 deviated | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 complained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complain speech: other | past | Mai | the local Muslim population by Judham Arabs | about slave raids | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about raid=Topic | |||
| 2 | describe | past | Judham Arabs | as polytheists; Mai nsubj | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as polytheist=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | deviate | past | polytheists | from true religion | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from religion=Co-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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