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title: In April 1995 a peace deal with a Tuareg rebel group was signed, wit… — Niger · tree and pragmatics
description: In April 1995 a peace deal with a Tuareg rebel group was signed, with the government agreeing to absorb some former rebels into the military and, with French assistance, help others return to a productive civilian life. Who acts: government, others. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niger» with its depende
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# Niger, sentence 155

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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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In April 1995 a peace deal with a Tuareg rebel group was signed, with the government agreeing to absorb some former rebels into the military and, with French assistance, help others return to a productive civilian life.

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**Who acts:** government, others · **What happens:** sign, agree, absorb, help, return · **To what, where:** peace deal, former rebels, military, others

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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 (government, others), 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:155
# text = In April 1995 a peace deal with a Tuareg rebel group was signed, with the government agreeing to absorb some former rebels into the military and, with French assistance, help others return to a productive civilian life.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	1995	1995	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Tuareg	tuareg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	rebel	rebel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:agent	_	_
18	agreeing	agree	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	absorb	absorb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rebels	rebel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
34	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	productive	productive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	civilian	civilian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | past · passive | the government | a peace deal with a rebel group |  |  | april |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund | the government *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **absorb** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* | some former rebels |  | the military |  |  | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal rebel=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | present | the government *not said here* | others |  |  |  | with French assistance | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **return** | infinitive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a productive civilian life *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to life=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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