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title: The predominant natural trees are Combretaceae, including the specie… — Niamey · tree and pragmatics
description: The predominant natural trees are Combretaceae, including the species Acacia albida, which is maintained for soil regeneration. Who acts: predominant natural trees. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niamey» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niamey, sentence 172

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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 predominant natural trees are Combretaceae, including the species Acacia albida, which is maintained for soil regeneration.

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**Who acts:** predominant natural trees · **What happens:** be, maintain · **To what, where:** Combretaceae, Acacia albida

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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 (predominant natural trees), 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:172
# text = The predominant natural trees are Combretaceae, including the species Acacia albida, which is maintained for soil regeneration.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	predominant	predominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Combretaceae	Combretaceae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	including	including	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	Acacia	Acacia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	albida	albida	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	regeneration	regeneration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the predominant natural trees | Combretaceae |  |  |  | including the species and Acacia albida | tree rules |
| 2 | **maintain** | present · passive |  | Acacia albida |  |  |  | for soil regeneration | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme |

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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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