---
title: Kanuri, spoken in the northeast, primarily in Borno and Yobe State,… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Kanuri, spoken in the northeast, primarily in Borno and Yobe State, is part of the Nilo-Saharan family, and Hausa is an Afroasiatic language. Who acts: Hausa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nigeria/546/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Nigeria](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nigeria/) / 546

# Nigeria, sentence 546

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Kanuri, spoken in the northeast, primarily in Borno and Yobe State, is part of the Nilo-Saharan family, and Hausa is an Afroasiatic language.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Hausa · **What happens:** speak, be · **To what, where:** Kanuri, northeast, part, Afroasiatic language · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Hausa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:546
# text = Kanuri, spoken in the northeast, primarily in Borno and Yobe State, is part of the Nilo-Saharan family, and Hausa is an Afroasiatic language.
1	Kanuri	Kanuri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Borno	Borno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Yobe	Yobe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	Nilo	Nilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Saharan	Saharan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	Hausa	Hausa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Afroasiatic	afroasiatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle · passive |  | Kanuri |  | the northeast |  | Borno and Yobe *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | part |  |  |  | of the Saharan family | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Hausa | a Afroasiatic language |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 545](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nigeria/545/)
- next →: [sentence 547](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nigeria/547/)
- ↑ back to [Nigeria](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nigeria/)