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title: The Nigerian telecommunications market is one of the fastest-growing… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Nigerian telecommunications market is one of the fastest-growing in the world, with major emerging market operators (like MTN, 9mobile, Airtel and Globacom) basing their largest and most profitable centres in the country. Who acts: telecommunications market, major emerging market operators. A se
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# Nigeria, sentence 468

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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 Nigerian telecommunications market is one of the fastest-growing in the world, with major emerging market operators (like MTN, 9mobile, Airtel and Globacom) basing their largest and most profitable centres in the country.

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**Who acts:** telecommunications market, major emerging market operators · **What happens:** be, grow, emerge, base · **To what, where:** one, world, largest centres, country

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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 (telecommunications market, major emerging market operators), 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:468
# text = The Nigerian telecommunications market is one of the fastest-growing in the world, with major emerging market operators (like MTN, 9mobile, Airtel and Globacom) basing their largest and most profitable centres in the country.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Nigerian	nigerian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	telecommunications	telecommunication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	emerging	emerge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
19	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	operators	operator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	MTN	MTN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	mobile	mobile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Airtel	Airtel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	Globacom	Globacom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
32	basing	base	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
34	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	37	advmod	_	_
37	profitable	profitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
38	centres	centre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 telecommunications market | one |  |  |  | of the fastest | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  | the world |  | with major emerging market operators | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
| 3 | **emerge** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **base** | gerund | major emerging market operators *not said here* | MTN's largest centres |  | the country |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent centre=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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