--- title: Niamey has a large market for Tuareg craftwork and art, often purcha… — Niamey · tree and pragmatics description: Niamey has a large market for Tuareg craftwork and art, often purchased by Western expatriates, which has motivated Tuareg artisans to work in the city; the market of Château 1 became a popular place for such products in the 1990s. Who acts: Niamey, market. 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Niamey has a large market for Tuareg craftwork and art, often purchased by Western expatriates, which has motivated Tuareg artisans to work in the city; the market of Château 1 became a popular place for such products in the 1990s. **Who acts:** Niamey, market · **What happens:** have, purchase, motivate, work, become, market · **To what, where:** large market, Western expatriates, popular place, Château 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 (Niamey, market), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:361 # text = Niamey has a large market for Tuareg craftwork and art, often purchased by Western expatriates, which has motivated Tuareg artisans to work in the city; the market of Château 1 became a popular place for such products in the 1990s. 1 Niamey niamey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 Tuareg Tuareg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 craftwork craftwork NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 often often ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 purchased purchase VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 Western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 expatriates expatriate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 motivated motivate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 Tuareg Tuareg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 artisans artisan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Château Château PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 flat _ _ 34 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 xcomp _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 products product NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 1990s 1990s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Niamey | a large market | | | | for Tuareg craftwork and art | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent market=Patient | | 2 | **purchase** | participle | | a large market *not said here* | | | | by Western expatriates; often *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **motivate** | present · perfect · passive | | Western expatriates | | | | Tuareg artisans *obj* | tree rules | | 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | | | | | | in the city | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in city=Theme | | 5 | **become** | past | the market of Château | a popular place for such products in the 1990s | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **market** | | | Château | | | | | nom market «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 360](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Niamey/360/) - next →: [sentence 362](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Niamey/362/) - ↑ back to [Niamey](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Niamey/)