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title: Kountché died in November 1987 from a brain tumour and was succeeded… — Niger · tree and pragmatics
description: Kountché died in November 1987 from a brain tumour and was succeeded by his chief of staff, Colonel Ali Saibou who was confirmed as Chief of the Supreme Military Council. Who acts: Kountché, chief. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niger» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niger, sentence 138

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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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Kountché died in November 1987 from a brain tumour and was succeeded by his chief of staff, Colonel Ali Saibou who was confirmed as Chief of the Supreme Military Council.

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**Who acts:** Kountché, chief · **What happens:** die, succeed, confirm · **To what, where:** brain tumour, Colonel Ali

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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: who acts (Kountché, chief), 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:138
# text = Kountché died in November 1987 from a brain tumour and was succeeded by his chief of staff, Colonel Ali Saibou who was confirmed as Chief of the Supreme Military Council.
1	Kountché	Kountché	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	1987	1987	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tumour	tumour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Colonel	Colonel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	Saibou	Saibou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	Supreme	Supreme	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	Military	Military	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Kountché |  |  | a brain tumour | november |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from tumour=Causer |
| 2 | **succeed** | past · passive | Kountché's chief of staff  Colonel Ali |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **confirm** | past · passive |  | Colonel Ali |  |  |  | as Chief of the Supreme Military Council | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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