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title: In February 2024 several ECOWAS sanctions against Niger were dropped… — Niger · tree and pragmatics
description: In February 2024 several ECOWAS sanctions against Niger were dropped, reportedly for humanitarian and diplomatic reasons, and Nigeria agreed to resume electricity exports to Niger. Who acts: Nigeria. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niger» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niger, sentence 210

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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 February 2024 several ECOWAS sanctions against Niger were dropped, reportedly for humanitarian and diplomatic reasons, and Nigeria agreed to resume electricity exports to Niger.

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**Who acts:** Nigeria · **What happens:** drop, agree, resume · **To what, where:** several ECOWAS sanctions, electricity exports, Niger

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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 (Nigeria), 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:210
# text = In February 2024 several ECOWAS sanctions against Niger were dropped, reportedly for humanitarian and diplomatic reasons, and Nigeria agreed to resume electricity exports to Niger.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	ECOWAS	ECOWAS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sanctions	sanction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Niger	Niger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	reportedly	reportedly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	humanitarian	humanitarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	resume	resume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	exports	export	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Niger	Niger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past · passive |  | several ECOWAS sanctions against Niger |  |  | february | for humanitarian reasons | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Nigeria |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **resume** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nigeria *not said here* | electricity exports | Niger |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent export=Eventuality |

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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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