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title: After petroleum, the largest source of foreign exchange earnings for… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: After petroleum, the largest source of foreign exchange earnings for Nigeria are remittances sent home by Nigerians living abroad. Who acts: largest source, Nigerians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 401

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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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After petroleum, the largest source of foreign exchange earnings for Nigeria are remittances sent home by Nigerians living abroad.

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**Who acts:** largest source, Nigerians · **What happens:** be, send, live · **To what, where:** remittances

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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 (largest source, Nigerians), 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:401
# text = After petroleum, the largest source of foreign exchange earnings for Nigeria are remittances sent home by Nigerians living abroad.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	petroleum	petroleum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	earnings	earning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	remittances	remittance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
15	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Nigerians	Nigerian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the largest source of foreign exchange earnings for Nigeria | remittances |  |  | after petroleum |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | participle |  | remittances *not said here* |  |  |  | by Nigerians; home *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | Nigerians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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