Nigeria, sentence 73
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.
While the primary source of new slaves were the newly conquered Hausa peoples, raids on non-Muslim communities and other ethnic groups accused of not being true Muslims persisted.
Who acts: true Muslims · What happens: conquer, accuse, not be, persist · To what, where: Hausa peoples, other ethnic groups, primary source
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 (true Muslims), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 source | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 source | det |
| 3 | primary | primary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 source | amod |
| 4 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 slaves | case |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 slaves | amod |
| 7 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 source | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 the | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 slaves | nmod |
| 10 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 11 conquered | advmod |
| 11 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 the | acl:relcl |
| 12 | Hausa | Hausa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 peoples | compound |
| 13 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 conquered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 raids | punct |
| 15 | raids | raid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 peoples | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 communities | case |
| 17 | non-Muslim | non-muslim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 communities | amod |
| 18 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 raids | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 groups | cc |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 groups | amod |
| 21 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 groups | amod |
| 22 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 communities | conj |
| 23 | accused | accuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 groups | acl |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 persisted | mark |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 true | advmod |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 true | cop |
| 27 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Muslims | amod |
| 28 | Muslims | Muslim | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 persisted | nsubj |
| 29 | persisted | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 accused | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 source | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | past | Hausa peoples and raids on non-Muslim communities and other ethnic groups | newly property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 2 | accuse | participle | other ethnic groups not said here | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | gerund | true property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | persist | past | true Muslims | 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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