---
title: A new city plan was drafted in 1961 by the French firm Kalt, Pourdai… — Niamey · tree and pragmatics
description: A new city plan was drafted in 1961 by the French firm Kalt, Pourdaier-Duteil, and Raymond, which zoned the former indigenous quarter for a higher density than the former European quarter. Who acts: French firm, Raymond. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niamey» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Niamey/99/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Niamey](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Niamey/) / 99

# Niamey, sentence 99

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A new city plan was drafted in 1961 by the French firm Kalt, Pourdaier-Duteil, and Raymond, which zoned the former indigenous quarter for a higher density than the former European quarter.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** French firm, Raymond · **What happens:** draft, zone · **To what, where:** new city plan, 1961, former indigenous quarter

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (French firm, Raymond), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:99
# text = A new city plan was drafted in 1961 by the French firm Kalt, Pourdaier-Duteil, and Raymond, which zoned the former indigenous quarter for a higher density than the former European quarter.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	drafted	draft	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1961	1961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	firm	firm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	Kalt	Kalt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Pourdaier	Pourdaier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Duteil	Duteil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Raymond	Raymond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	zoned	zone	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	density	density	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draft** | past · passive | the French firm | a new city plan |  | 1961 |  | Raymond *obl* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
| 2 | **zone** | past | Raymond | the former indigenous quarter |  |  |  | for a higher density; than the former European quarter | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Niamey/98/)
- next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Niamey/100/)
- ↑ back to [Niamey](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Niamey/)