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title: As the city's population increased—from 5,000 in 1941 to 7,500 in 19… — Niamey · tree and pragmatics
description: As the city's population increased—from 5,000 in 1941 to 7,500 in 1945—the remaining colonial administrators were unable to enforce property ownership laws, resulting in many people acquiring land from indigenous chiefs. Who acts: remaining colonial administrators, many people. A sentence of Wikiped
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# Niamey, sentence 79

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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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As the city's population increased—from 5,000 in 1941 to 7,500 in 1945—the remaining colonial administrators were unable to enforce property ownership laws, resulting in many people acquiring land from indigenous chiefs.

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**Who acts:** remaining colonial administrators, many people · **What happens:** increase, be, enforce, result, acquire · **To what, where:** 5,000, property, land, indigenous chiefs

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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 (remaining colonial administrators, many people), 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:79
# text = As the city's population increased—from 5,000 in 1941 to 7,500 in 1945—the remaining colonial administrators were unable to enforce property ownership laws, resulting in many people acquiring land from indigenous chiefs.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	7,500	7,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	remaining	remaining	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	administrators	administrator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	enforce	enforce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	ownership	ownership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	resulting	result	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	acquiring	acquire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | past |  |  |  | 5,000 in 1941 to 7,500 in 1945 |  | as the city's population | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the remaining colonial administrators |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **enforce** | to-infinitive | the remaining colonial administrators *not said here* | property |  |  |  | ownership laws *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **result** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in many people | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in people=Location |
| 5 | **acquire** | gerund | many people *not said here* | land |  | indigenous chiefs |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent land=Theme from chief=Source |

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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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