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title: Customary law is derived from indigenous traditional norms and pract… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Customary law is derived from indigenous traditional norms and practices, including the dispute resolution meetings of pre-colonial Yoruba land secret societies and the Èkpè and Okónkò of Igboland and Ibibioland. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 320

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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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Customary law is derived from indigenous traditional norms and practices, including the dispute resolution meetings of pre-colonial Yoruba land secret societies and the Èkpè and Okónkò of Igboland and Ibibioland.

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**What happens:** derive · **To what, where:** Customary law, indigenous traditional norms

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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:320
# text = Customary law is derived from indigenous traditional norms and practices, including the dispute resolution meetings of pre-colonial Yoruba land secret societies and the Èkpè and Okónkò of Igboland and Ibibioland.
1	Customary	Customary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	norms	norm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	practices	practice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	including	including	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	resolution	resolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	meetings	meeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	pre-colonial	pre-colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Yoruba	Yoruba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	societies	society	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Èkpè	Èkpè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Okónkò	Okónkò	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Igboland	Igboland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Ibibioland	Ibibioland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **derive** | present · passive |  | Customary law |  | indigenous traditional norms and practices |  | including the resolution meetings of pre-colonial Yoruba land and secret societies  the Èkpè and Okónkò of Igboland and Ibibioland | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from norm=Material |

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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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