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title: In 1897 French officer Marius Gabriel Cazemajou was sent to Niger. — Niger · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1897 French officer Marius Gabriel Cazemajou was sent to Niger. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niger» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niger, sentence 94

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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 1897 French officer Marius Gabriel Cazemajou was sent to Niger.

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**What happens:** send · **To what, where:** Marius, Niger, 1897

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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:94
# text = In 1897 French officer Marius Gabriel Cazemajou was sent to Niger.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1897	1897	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
3	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Marius	Marius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	Gabriel	Gabriel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Cazemajou	Cazemajou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Niger	Niger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | Marius  French officer | Niger | 1897 |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1897=Destination |

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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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