Nigeria, sentence 715
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.
In the early 1990s, Scrabble was made an official sport in Nigeria; by the end of 2017, there were around 4,000 players in more than 100 clubs in the country.
Who acts: end, 4,000 players · What happens: make, be around · To what, where: Scrabble, early 1990s
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 (end, 4,000 players), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 1990s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 1990s | det |
| 3 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 1990s | amod |
| 4 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 8 made | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 1990s | punct |
| 6 | Scrabble | Scrabble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sport | det |
| 10 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sport | amod |
| 11 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Nigeria | case |
| 13 | Nigeria | Nigeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sport | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 end | punct |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 end | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 end | det |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 2017 | case |
| 19 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 end | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 were | punct |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 were | expl |
| 22 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | parataxis |
| 23 | around | around | ADV | _ | 24 4,000 | advmod |
| 24 | 4,000 | 4,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 players | nummod |
| 25 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 were | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 clubs | case |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 29 100 | advmod |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 more | fixed |
| 29 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 clubs | nummod |
| 30 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 players | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 country | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 country | det |
| 33 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 clubs | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the end of 2017 | Scrabble | the early 1990s | a official sport obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset subject=Beneficiary sport=Product | ||
| 2 | be around | past | 4,000 players in 100 clubs in the country | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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