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title: Radio is the most important medium, as television sets are beyond th… — Niger · tree and pragmatics
description: Radio is the most important medium, as television sets are beyond the buying power of many of the rural poor, and illiteracy prevents print media from becoming a mass medium. Who acts: Radio, television sets, illiteracy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niger» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niger, sentence 392

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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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Radio is the most important medium, as television sets are beyond the buying power of many of the rural poor, and illiteracy prevents print media from becoming a mass medium.

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**Who acts:** Radio, television sets, illiteracy · **What happens:** be, buy, prevent, become · **To what, where:** important medium, print media, mass medium

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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 (Radio, television sets, illiteracy), 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:392
# text = Radio is the most important medium, as television sets are beyond the buying power of many of the rural poor, and illiteracy prevents print media from becoming a mass medium.
1	Radio	Radio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	medium	medium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sets	set	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	illiteracy	illiteracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	prevents	prevent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	print	print	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	medium	medium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Radio | the important medium and the buying power |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | television sets |  |  |  |  | beyond the buying power | tree rules |
| 4 | **prevent** | present | illiteracy | print media |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer media=Theme |
| 5 | **become** | gerund | illiteracy *not said here* | a mass medium |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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