--- title: The capital of the territory was moved to Zinder in 1912 when the Ni… — Niger · tree and pragmatics description: The capital of the territory was moved to Zinder in 1912 when the Niger Military Territory was split off from Upper Senegal and Niger, before being moved back to Niamey in 1922 when Niger became a colony within French West Africa. Who acts: Niger. 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The capital of the territory was moved to Zinder in 1912 when the Niger Military Territory was split off from Upper Senegal and Niger, before being moved back to Niamey in 1922 when Niger became a colony within French West Africa. **Who acts:** Niger · **What happens:** move, split off, move back, become · **To what, where:** capital, Zinder, 1912, Niger Military Territory, 1922, colony This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Niger». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niger), 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:Niger:105 # text = The capital of the territory was moved to Zinder in 1912 when the Niger Military Territory was split off from Upper Senegal and Niger, before being moved back to Niamey in 1922 when Niger became a colony within French West Africa. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 territory territory NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 moved move VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Zinder Zinder PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 1912 1912 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 12 when when SCONJ WRB _ 18 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 Niger Niger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 Military Military PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Territory Territory PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 19 off off ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 Upper Upper PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Senegal Senegal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 Niger Niger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 before before SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 moved move VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 29 back back ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Niamey Niamey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 1922 1922 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 34 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 35 Niger Niger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 colony colony NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 xcomp _ _ 39 within within ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 41 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | past · passive | | the capital of the territory | Zinder | 1912 | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme to zinder=Source in 1912=Trajectory | | 2 | **split off** | past · passive | | the Niger Military Territory | | | | from Upper Senegal and Niger | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from senegal=Co-Patient | | 3 | **move back** | gerund · passive | | | | 1922 | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: in 1922=Trajectory | | 4 | **become** | past | Niger | a colony within French West Africa | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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, «Niger», 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 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Niger/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Niger/106/) - ↑ back to [Niger](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Niger/)