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title: Nigeria is located in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea and has a… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Nigeria is located in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea and has a total area of 923768 km2, making it the world's 31st-largest country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 229

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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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Nigeria is located in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea and has a total area of 923768 km2, making it the world's 31st-largest country.

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**What happens:** locate, have, make · **To what, where:** Nigeria, western Africa, total area, area

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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: 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:229
# text = Nigeria is located in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea and has a total area of 923768 km2, making it the world's 31st-largest country.
1	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	923768	923768	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
19	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	31st	31st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | present · passive |  | Nigeria |  | western Africa |  | on the Gulf of Guinea | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | a total area of 923768 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | gerund |  | area |  |  |  | the world's 31st and largest country *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary 31st=Product |

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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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