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title: Senate President Nwafor Orizu handed over government control to the… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Senate President Nwafor Orizu handed over government control to the Army, under the command of another Igbo officer, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi. Who acts: Nwafor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 150

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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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Senate President Nwafor Orizu handed over government control to the Army, under the command of another Igbo officer, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi.

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**Who acts:** Nwafor · **What happens:** hand, command · **To what, where:** Major, government control, Igbo officer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Nwafor), 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:150
# text = Senate President Nwafor Orizu handed over government control to the Army, under the command of another Igbo officer, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi.
1	Senate	Senate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Nwafor	Nwafor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Orizu	Orizu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Army	Army	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	Igbo	Igbo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Major	Major	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
22	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Johnson	Johnson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	Aguiyi	Aguiyi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Ironsi	Ironsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand** | past | Nwafor  Senate President | Major and Johnson  General |  | government control to the Army |  | under the command of another Igbo officer | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **command** |  |  | another Igbo officer |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: of=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, «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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