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title: The plan allowed the region to shrink to centralise the area managed… — Niamey · tree and pragmatics
description: The plan allowed the region to shrink to centralise the area managed, but a 2002 plan instead allowed each municipality to expand within a perimeter to benefit from urban growth. Who acts: plan, area, 2002 plan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niamey» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niamey, sentence 136

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From Wikipedia, [«Niamey»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niamey), 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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The plan allowed the region to shrink to centralise the area managed, but a 2002 plan instead allowed each municipality to expand within a perimeter to benefit from urban growth.

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**Who acts:** plan, area, 2002 plan · **What happens:** allow, shrink, centralise, manage, expand, benefit · **To what, where:** region, 2002 plan, urban growth

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Niamey». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan, area, 2002 plan), 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:Niamey:136
# text = The plan allowed the region to shrink to centralise the area managed, but a 2002 plan instead allowed each municipality to expand within a perimeter to benefit from urban growth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	shrink	shrink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	centralise	centralise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	2002	2002	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	municipality	municipality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	expand	expand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
24	within	within	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	perimeter	perimeter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	benefit	benefit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past | the plan | the region |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **shrink** | to-infinitive | the plan *not said here* | the region *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **centralise** | to-infinitive | the plan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **manage** | past | the area |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **allow** | participle · passive |  | a 2002 plan |  |  |  | each municipality *obj*; instead *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **expand** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a 2002 plan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within a perimeter | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **benefit** | to-infinitive | a 2002 plan *not said here* |  |  | urban growth |  |  | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Beneficiary from growth=Causer |

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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, «Niamey», 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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