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title: Niamey is crossed by the RN1 highway (or La Route de l'Unité), conne… — Niamey · tree and pragmatics
description: Niamey is crossed by the RN1 highway (or La Route de l'Unité), connecting it to N'guigmi on the eastern edge of Niger. Who acts: RN1 highway. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niamey» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niamey, sentence 408

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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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Niamey is crossed by the RN1 highway (or La Route de l'Unité), connecting it to N'guigmi on the eastern edge of Niger.

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**Who acts:** RN1 highway · **What happens:** cross, connect · **To what, where:** Niamey, l'Unité, N'guigmi, eastern edge

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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 (RN1 highway), 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:408
# text = Niamey is crossed by the RN1 highway (or La Route de l'Unité), connecting it to N'guigmi on the eastern edge of Niger.
1	Niamey	niamey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	RN1	RN1	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	Route	Route	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
13	l'Unité	l'unité	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	connecting	connect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	N'guigmi	N'guigmi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Niger	Niger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | present · passive | the RN1 highway | Niamey |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **connect** | gerund | the RN1 highway *not said here* | l'Unité | N'guigmi | the eastern edge of Niger |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to n'guigmi=Co-Patient |

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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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