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title: One exception to the African focus was Nigeria's close relationship… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: One exception to the African focus was Nigeria's close relationship with Israel throughout the 1960s. Who acts: One exception. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 326

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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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One exception to the African focus was Nigeria's close relationship with Israel throughout the 1960s.

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**Who acts:** One exception · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** close relationship

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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 (One exception), 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:326
# text = One exception to the African focus was Nigeria's close relationship with Israel throughout the 1960s.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	focus	focus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	1960s	1960s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | One exception to the African focus | Nigeria's close relationship |  |  | throughout the 1960s | with Israel; Nigeria *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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