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title: Buhari's campaign in 2015 was popular and built around his image as… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Buhari's campaign in 2015 was popular and built around his image as a staunch anti-corruption fighter—he won the election by over two million votes. Who acts: campaign, Buhari. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 214

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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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Buhari's campaign in 2015 was popular and built around his image as a staunch anti-corruption fighter—he won the election by over two million votes.

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**Who acts:** campaign, Buhari · **What happens:** be, build, win, campaign, image · **To what, where:** image, election

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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 (campaign, Buhari), 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:214
# text = Buhari's campaign in 2015 was popular and built around his image as a staunch anti-corruption fighter—he won the election by over two million votes.
1	Buhari	Buhari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	staunch	staunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	anti-corruption	anti-corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fighter	fighter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	over	over	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	compound	_	_
26	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Buhari's campaign in 2015 |  |  |  |  | popular *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | participle | Buhari's campaign in 2015 *not said here* |  |  | Buhari's image as a anti-corruption fighter |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **win** | past | Buhari | the election |  |  |  | by million votes | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality |
| 4 | **campaign** |  | Buhari |  |  |  |  |  | nom campaign «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **image** |  | Buhari |  |  |  |  | as a anti-corruption fighter | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent as=obl |

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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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