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title: It subsequently became the primary military and financial backbone—a… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: It subsequently became the primary military and financial backbone—acting as the regional standard-bearer—for the ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), leading peacekeeping and intervention efforts during the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Who acts: role. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» wit
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# Nigeria, sentence 333

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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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It subsequently became the primary military and financial backbone—acting as the regional standard-bearer—for the ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), leading peacekeeping and intervention efforts during the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

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**Who acts:** role · **What happens:** become, act, lead · **To what, where:** primary military backbone, peacekeeping

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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 (role), 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:333
# text = It subsequently became the primary military and financial backbone—acting as the regional standard-bearer—for the ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), leading peacekeeping and intervention efforts during the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	financial	financial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	backbone	backbone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	acting	act	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	standard	standard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	bearer	bearer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	ECOWAS	ECOWAS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Monitoring	Monitoring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Group	Group	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	ECOMOG	ecomog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
29	peacekeeping	peacekeeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	intervention	intervention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	during	during	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Liberia	Liberia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	Leone	Leone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | role | the primary military backbone |  |  |  | subsequently *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **act** | gerund | role *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the regional standard bearer; for the Monitoring Group | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as bearer=Attribute |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | role *not said here* | peacekeeping and intervention efforts |  |  | during the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peacekeeping=Theme |

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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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