--- title: A 2017 World Bank report on logistics hubs in Africa placed the coun… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: A 2017 World Bank report on logistics hubs in Africa placed the country in fourth place, behind Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, and Sao Tome, but in 2021, Nigeria joined the World Logistics Passport, a private sector group working to increase the efficiency of global trade. 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A 2017 World Bank report on logistics hubs in Africa placed the country in fourth place, behind Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, and Sao Tome, but in 2021, Nigeria joined the World Logistics Passport, a private sector group working to increase the efficiency of global trade. **Who acts:** Bank report, Nigeria, private sector group · **What happens:** hub, place, join, work, increase · **To what, where:** country, Africa, Logistics Passport, 2021, efficiency 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 (Bank report, Nigeria, private sector group), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:488 # text = A 2017 World Bank report on logistics hubs in Africa placed the country in fourth place, behind Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, and Sao Tome, but in 2021, Nigeria joined the World Logistics Passport, a private sector group working to increase the efficiency of global trade. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 2017 2017 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Bank Bank PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 logistics logistic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 hubs hub VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 11 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 fourth fourth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 amod _ _ 16 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 behind behind ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 Côte Côte PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 d'Ivoire d'Ivoire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Senegal Senegal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 Sao Sao PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 26 Tome Tome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 Nigeria Nigeria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 Logistics Logistic PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 37 compound _ _ 37 Passport Passport PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 41 sector sector NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 43 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 acl _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 increase increase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 advcl _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 efficiency efficiency NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 global global ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hub** | present | a Bank report on logistics | | | | | Sao *parataxis* | tree rules | | 2 | **place** | past | a Bank report on logistics *not said here* | the country | | Africa | | in fourth place; behind Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent country=Theme in africa=Destination | | 3 | **join** | past | Nigeria | the Logistics Passport | | 2021 | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passport=Patient | | 4 | **work** | gerund | a private sector group *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **increase** | to-infinitive | a private sector group *not said here* | the efficiency of global trade | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer efficiency=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 487](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nigeria/487/) - next →: [sentence 489](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nigeria/489/) - ↑ back to [Nigeria](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nigeria/)