--- title: The ethnic makeup of Niger as per the 2001 census was as follows: Ha… — Niger · tree and pragmatics description: The ethnic makeup of Niger as per the 2001 census was as follows: Hausa (55.4%), Zarma & Songhay (21%), Tuareg (9.3%), Fula (Peuls; Fulɓe) (8.5%), Kanuri Manga (4.7%), Tubu (0.4%), Diffa Arabs (0.4%), Gourmantche (0.4%), other (0.1%). Who acts: ethnic makeup. 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The ethnic makeup of Niger as per the 2001 census was as follows: Hausa (55.4%), Zarma & Songhay (21%), Tuareg (9.3%), Fula (Peuls; Fulɓe) (8.5%), Kanuri Manga (4.7%), Tubu (0.4%), Diffa Arabs (0.4%), Gourmantche (0.4%), other (0.1%). **Who acts:** ethnic makeup · **What happens:** be 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 (ethnic makeup), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:316 # text = The ethnic makeup of Niger as per the 2001 census was as follows: Hausa (55.4%), Zarma & Songhay (21%), Tuareg (9.3%), Fula (Peuls; Fulɓe) (8.5%), Kanuri Manga (4.7%), Tubu (0.4%), Diffa Arabs (0.4%), Gourmantche (0.4%), other (0.1%). 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 ethnic ethnic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 makeup makeup NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Niger Niger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 per per ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 2001 2001 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 census census NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Hausa Hausa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 55.4 55.4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Zarma Zarma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 22 & & CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 Songhay Songhay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 21 21 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Tuareg Tuareg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 9.3 9.3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Fula Fula PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 36 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 Peuls Peul PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 39 Fulɓe Fulɓe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 8.5 8.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 Kanuri Kanuri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 47 Manga Manga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 flat _ _ 48 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 4.7 4.7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 50 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 46 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 53 Tubu Tubu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 54 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 0.4 0.4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 56 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 53 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 59 Diffa Diffa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 60 Arabs Arab PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 53 appos _ _ 61 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 63 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 0.4 0.4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 63 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 63 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 63 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 66 Gourmantche Gourmantche PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 67 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 69 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 0.4 0.4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 69 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 69 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 66 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 70 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 69 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 71 , , PUNCT , _ 72 punct _ _ 72 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 66 parataxis _ _ 73 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 75 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 74 0.1 0.1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 75 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 75 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 76 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 75 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 77 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the ethnic makeup of Niger as the 2001 census | | | | | Hausa and Zarma & Songhay and Tuareg and Fula and Peuls *obl*; Fulɓe and Kanuri and Tubu and Gourmantche *obl*; follow *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 315](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Niger/315/) - next →: [sentence 317](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Niger/317/) - ↑ back to [Niger](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Niger/)