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title: Abuja is the headquarters of the Economic Community of West African… — Abuja · tree and pragmatics
description: Abuja is the headquarters of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the regional headquarters of OPEC. Who acts: Abuja. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Abuja» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Abuja, sentence 51

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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 the headquarters of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the regional headquarters of OPEC.

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**Who acts:** Abuja · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** headquarters

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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), 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:51
# text = Abuja is the headquarters of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the regional headquarters of OPEC.
1	Abuja	Abuja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Community	Community	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ECOWAS	ECOWAS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	OPEC	OPEC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | the headquarters |  |  |  | of the Economic Community of West African States  ECOWAS and the regional headquarters of OPEC | 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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