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title: Thanks to the success of the Dangote refinery, which opened in 2023,… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Thanks to the success of the Dangote refinery, which opened in 2023, Nigeria is transforming from an oil exporter into a fuel and fertiliser exporter. Who acts: Dangote refinery, Nigeria. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 436

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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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Thanks to the success of the Dangote refinery, which opened in 2023, Nigeria is transforming from an oil exporter into a fuel and fertiliser exporter.

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**Who acts:** Dangote refinery, Nigeria · **What happens:** open, transform · **To what, where:** 2023, oil exporter, Thanks

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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 (Dangote refinery, Nigeria), 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:436
# text = Thanks to the success of the Dangote refinery, which opened in 2023, Nigeria is transforming from an oil exporter into a fuel and fertiliser exporter.
1	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Dangote	Dangote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	refinery	refinery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	transforming	transform	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	exporter	exporter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	fertiliser	fertiliser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	exporter	exporter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | the Dangote refinery |  |  | 2023 |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2023=Location |
| 2 | **transform** | present · progressive | Nigeria |  |  | a oil exporter |  | into a fuel and fertiliser exporter *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Patient from exporter=Initial\_State into fuel=Result |

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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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