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title: A direct highway link to Minna in Niger State is still under constru… — Abuja · tree and pragmatics
description: A direct highway link to Minna in Niger State is still under construction. Who acts: direct highway link. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abuja» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abuja, sentence 202

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From Wikipedia, [«Abuja»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuja), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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A direct highway link to Minna in Niger State is still under construction.

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**Who acts:** direct highway link · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** construction

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Abuja». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (direct highway link), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Abuja:202
# text = A direct highway link to Minna in Niger State is still under construction.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	link	link	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Minna	Minna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Niger	Niger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a direct highway link to Minna in Niger State |  |  | construction | still |  | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Abuja», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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