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title: The Government blamed ISWAP for the murder of over 50 parishioners,… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Government blamed ISWAP for the murder of over 50 parishioners, but locals suspect Fulani herdsmen's involvement. Who acts: Government, locals. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 385

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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 Government blamed ISWAP for the murder of over 50 parishioners, but locals suspect Fulani herdsmen's involvement.

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**Who acts:** Government, locals · **What happens:** blame, murder, involve · **To what, where:** ISWAP, 50 parishioners

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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 (Government, locals), 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:385
# text = The Government blamed ISWAP for the murder of over 50 parishioners, but locals suspect Fulani herdsmen's involvement.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blamed	blame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ISWAP	iswap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	murder	murder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	parishioners	parishioner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	locals	local	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod:poss	_	_
15	suspect	suspect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Fulani	Fulani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	herdsmen	herdsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	involvement	involvement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blame** | past | the Government | ISWAP |  |  |  | for the murder of 50 parishioners; locals and suspect Fulani herdsmen's involvement *parataxis* | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent iswap=Theme for murder=Attribute |
| 2 | **murder** |  |  | 50 parishioners |  |  |  |  | nom murder «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **involve** |  | locals and suspect Fulani herdsmen |  |  |  |  |  | nom involvement «act transitive»: poss=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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