Nigeria, sentence 548
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 official language of Nigeria, English, was chosen to facilitate the cultural and linguistic unity of the country, owing to the influence of British colonisation which ended in 1960.
Who acts: British colonisation · What happens: choose, facilitate, owe, end · To what, where: official language, cultural unity, influence, 1960
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 (British colonisation), 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 | 3 language | det |
| 2 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 language | amod |
| 3 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Nigeria | case |
| 5 | Nigeria | Nigeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 language | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 English | punct |
| 7 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Nigeria | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 language | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 chosen | aux:pass |
| 10 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 facilitate | mark |
| 12 | facilitate | facilitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 chosen | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 unity | det |
| 14 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 unity | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 linguistic | cc |
| 16 | linguistic | linguistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cultural | conj |
| 17 | unity | unity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 facilitate | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 unity | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 owing | punct |
| 22 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 facilitate | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 influence | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 influence | det |
| 25 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 owing | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 colonisation | case |
| 27 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 colonisation | amod |
| 28 | colonisation | colonisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 influence | nmod |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 ended | nsubj |
| 30 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 colonisation | acl:relcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 1960 | case |
| 32 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 ended | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · passive | the official language of Nigeria and English | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | facilitate | to-infinitive | the cultural unity of the country | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | owe | gerund | to the influence of British colonisation goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to influence=Goal | |||||
| 4 | end | past | British colonisation | 1960 | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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