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title: Nnamdi Azikiwe replaced the colonial governor-general in November 19… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Nnamdi Azikiwe replaced the colonial governor-general in November 1960. Who acts: Nnamdi. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 124

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From Wikipedia, [«Nigeria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria), 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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Nnamdi Azikiwe replaced the colonial governor-general in November 1960.

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**Who acts:** Nnamdi · **What happens:** replace · **To what, where:** governor general

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nigeria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nnamdi), 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:Nigeria:124
# text = Nnamdi Azikiwe replaced the colonial governor-general in November 1960.
1	Nnamdi	Nnamdi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Azikiwe	Azikiwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	replaced	replace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
6	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **replace** | past | Nnamdi | the governor general |  |  | november |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme general=Co-Theme |

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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, «Nigeria», 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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