Nigeria, sentence 663
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.
A notable exponent of the genre were the genre's first Nigerian boy band Oriental Brothers International, Bobby Benson, Osita Osadebe, Victor Olaiya, Rex Lawson, Dr Sir Warrior and Oliver De Coque.
Who acts: notable exponent · What happens: be · To what, where: first Nigerian boy band
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 (notable exponent), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 exponent | det |
| 2 | notable | notable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 exponent | amod |
| 3 | exponent | exponent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 band | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 genre | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 genre | det |
| 6 | genre | genre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 exponent | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 band | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 genre | det |
| 9 | genre | genre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 band | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 genre | case |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 band | amod |
| 12 | Nigerian | nigerian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 band | amod |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 band | compound |
| 14 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | Oriental | Oriental | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 International | compound |
| 16 | Brothers | Brothers | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 International | compound |
| 17 | International | International | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 band | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Bobby | punct |
| 19 | Bobby | Bobby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 International | conj |
| 20 | Benson | Benson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Bobby | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Osita | punct |
| 22 | Osita | Osita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 International | conj |
| 23 | Osadebe | Osadebe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Osita | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Olaiya | punct |
| 25 | Victor | Victor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Olaiya | compound |
| 26 | Olaiya | Olaiya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 International | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Rex | punct |
| 28 | Rex | Rex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Olaiya | appos |
| 29 | Lawson | Lawson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Rex | flat |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Sir | punct |
| 31 | Dr | Dr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Sir | nmod:desc |
| 32 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Olaiya | conj |
| 33 | Warrior | Warrior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Sir | flat |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Oliver | cc |
| 35 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Olaiya | conj |
| 36 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Oliver | flat |
| 37 | Coque | Coque | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Oliver | flat |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 band | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a notable exponent of the genre | the genre's first Nigerian boy band | the genre nmod:poss; Oriental Brothers International and Bobby and Osita and Victor Olaiya and Sir Dr and Oliver appos | tree rules |
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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