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title: On 18 December 1958, an autonomous Republic of Niger was officially… — Niger · tree and pragmatics
description: On 18 December 1958, an autonomous Republic of Niger was officially created under the leadership of Hamani Diori. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niger» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niger, sentence 120

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From Wikipedia, [«Niger»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger), 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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On 18 December 1958, an autonomous Republic of Niger was officially created under the leadership of Hamani Diori.

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**What happens:** create · **To what, where:** autonomous Republic, 18

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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: 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:Niger:120
# text = On 18 December 1958, an autonomous Republic of Niger was officially created under the leadership of Hamani Diori.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
3	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1958	1958	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	autonomous	autonomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Niger	Niger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	leadership	leadership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Hamani	Hamani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Diori	Diori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **create** | past · passive |  | a autonomous Republic of Niger |  | 18 |  | under the leadership of Hamani; officially *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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, «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.

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