Nigeria, sentence 631
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.
Child marriage remains common in Northern Nigeria; 39% of girls are married before age 15, although the Marriage Rights Act banning marriage of girls under 18 was introduced on a federal level in 2008.
Who acts: Child marriage, Marriage Rights Act · What happens: remain, marry, ban, introduce · To what, where: marriage, 18, Marriage Rights Act, federal level, girls
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 (Child marriage, Marriage Rights Act), 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 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marriage | compound |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remains | nsubj |
| 3 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 remains | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Nigeria | case |
| 6 | Northern | Northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Nigeria | amod |
| 7 | Nigeria | Nigeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 common | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 married | punct |
| 9 | 39 | 39 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 % | nummod |
| 10 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 14 married | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 girls | case |
| 12 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 % | nmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 married | aux:pass |
| 14 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 remains | parataxis |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 age | case |
| 16 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 married | obl |
| 17 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 age | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 introduced | punct |
| 19 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 31 introduced | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Act | det |
| 21 | Marriage | Marriage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Act | compound |
| 22 | Rights | Rights | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Act | compound |
| 23 | Act | Act | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | banning | ban | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 Act | acl |
| 25 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 banning | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 girls | case |
| 27 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 marriage | nmod |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 18 | case |
| 29 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 banning | obl |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 introduced | aux:pass |
| 31 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 married | conj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 level | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 level | det |
| 34 | federal | federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 level | amod |
| 35 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 introduced | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 2008 | case |
| 37 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 introduced | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | Child marriage | common property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marry | present · passive | before age | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | ban | gerund | the Marriage Rights Act not said here | marriage of girls | 18 | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer marriage=Theme | |||
| 4 | introduce | past · passive | the Marriage Rights Act | a federal level | in 2008 | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 5 | marry | girls | nom marriage «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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