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title: The Kanem–Bornu Empire was a long-lived major Islamic power in the r… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Kanem–Bornu Empire was a long-lived major Islamic power in the region. Who acts: Kanem Bornu Empire. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 53

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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 Kanem–Bornu Empire was a long-lived major Islamic power in the region.

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**Who acts:** Kanem Bornu Empire · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** lived major Islamic power, region

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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 (Kanem Bornu Empire), 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:53
# text = The Kanem–Bornu Empire was a long-lived major Islamic power in the region.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Kanem	Kanem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	–	–	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Bornu	Bornu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	amod	_	_
11	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Kanem Bornu Empire | a lived major Islamic power |  | the region |  |  | tree rules |

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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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