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title: The Senate is a 109-seat body with three members from each state and… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Senate is a 109-seat body with three members from each state and one from the capital region of Abuja; members are elected by popular vote to four-year terms. Who acts: Senate, popular vote. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 301

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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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The Senate is a 109-seat body with three members from each state and one from the capital region of Abuja; members are elected by popular vote to four-year terms.

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**Who acts:** Senate, popular vote · **What happens:** be, elect · **To what, where:** seat body, members

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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 (Senate, popular vote), 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:301
# text = The Senate is a 109-seat body with three members from each state and one from the capital region of Abuja; members are elected by popular vote to four-year terms.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Senate	Senate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	109	109	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Abuja	Abuja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Senate | a seat body |  |  |  | with three members from each state and the one capital region of Abuja | tree rules |
| 2 | **elect** | present · passive | popular vote | members |  |  |  | to year terms | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to term=Attribute |

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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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