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title: It was temporarily expelled from the latter in 1995 when ruled by th… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: It was temporarily expelled from the latter in 1995 when ruled by the Abacha regime. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 339

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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 was temporarily expelled from the latter in 1995 when ruled by the Abacha regime.

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**What happens:** expel, rule · **To what, where:** court, latter

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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:339
# text = It was temporarily expelled from the latter in 1995 when ruled by the Abacha regime.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	temporarily	temporarily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	expelled	expel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1995	1995	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Abacha	Abacha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	regime	regime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expel** | past · passive |  | court |  | the latter |  | in 1995; temporarily *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from latter=Source |
| 2 | **rule** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | the Abacha regime *obl:agent* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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