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title: Natural gas is seen as having the potential to unlock an economic mi… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Natural gas is seen as having the potential to unlock an economic miracle on the Niger River. Who acts: potential. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 422

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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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Natural gas is seen as having the potential to unlock an economic miracle on the Niger River.

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**Who acts:** potential · **What happens:** see, have, unlock · **To what, where:** Natural gas, potential, economic miracle, Niger River

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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 (potential), 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:422
# text = Natural gas is seen as having the potential to unlock an economic miracle on the Niger River.
1	Natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	potential	potential	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	unlock	unlock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	miracle	miracle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Niger	Niger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · passive |  | Natural gas |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  | the potential |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **unlock** | to-infinitive | the potential *not said here* | a economic miracle |  | the Niger River |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miracle=Patient |

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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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