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title: Abuja is one of the cities that are endowed with natural resources i… — Abuja · tree and pragmatics
description: Abuja is one of the cities that are endowed with natural resources in Nigeria, and these resources serve as raw materials for pharmaceutical, food processing, medicinal and other processing companies, and they are also useful for commercial purposes, and as sources of food. Who acts: Abuja, resource
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# Abuja, sentence 224

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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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Abuja is one of the cities that are endowed with natural resources in Nigeria, and these resources serve as raw materials for pharmaceutical, food processing, medicinal and other processing companies, and they are also useful for commercial purposes, and as sources of food.

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**Who acts:** Abuja, resources · **What happens:** be, endow, serve · **To what, where:** one, cities

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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 (Abuja, resources), 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:224
# text = Abuja is one of the cities that are endowed with natural resources in Nigeria, and these resources serve as raw materials for pharmaceutical, food processing, medicinal and other processing companies, and they are also useful for commercial purposes, and as sources of food.
1	Abuja	Abuja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	serve	serve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	pharmaceutical	pharmaceutical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	processing	processing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	medicinal	medicinal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	processing	processing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	also	also	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	purposes	purpose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Abuja | one |  |  |  | of the cities; sources of food *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **endow** | present · passive |  | the cities |  |  |  | with natural resources in Nigeria | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with resource=Theme |
| 3 | **serve** | present | this resources |  |  |  |  | as raw materials for pharmaceutical and food processing and medicinal and other processing companies | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as material=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** | present | resources *= resource* |  |  |  |  | for commercial purposes; useful *property* | 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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