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title: The westernmost regions are joined with contiguous regions of Mali a… — Niger · tree and pragmatics
description: The westernmost regions are joined with contiguous regions of Mali and Burkina Faso under the Liptako–Gourma Authority. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niger» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niger, sentence 245

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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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The westernmost regions are joined with contiguous regions of Mali and Burkina Faso under the Liptako–Gourma Authority.

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**What happens:** join · **To what, where:** westernmost regions, Liptako Gourma Authority

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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:245
# text = The westernmost regions are joined with contiguous regions of Mali and Burkina Faso under the Liptako–Gourma Authority.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	westernmost	westernmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	contiguous	contiguous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Mali	Mali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Burkina	Burkina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	Faso	Faso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	Liptako	Liptako	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	–	–	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Gourma	Gourma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Authority	Authority	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | present · passive |  | the westernmost regions |  | the Liptako Gourma Authority |  | with contiguous regions of Mali and Burkina | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with region=Co-Patient |

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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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