Nigeria, sentence 85
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.
Britain's West Africa Squadron sought to intercept the smugglers at sea.
Who acts: West Africa · What happens: seek, intercept · To what, where: smugglers, sea
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 (West Africa), 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 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Africa | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Britain | case |
| 3 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Africa | compound |
| 4 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sought | nsubj |
| 5 | Squadron | Squadron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Africa | flat |
| 6 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 intercept | mark |
| 8 | intercept | intercept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sought | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 smugglers | det |
| 10 | smugglers | smuggler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 intercept | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 intercept | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Britain's West Africa | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | intercept not said to happen | to-infinitive | Britain's West Africa not said here | the smugglers | sea | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smuggler=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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