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title: Child marriage remains common in Northern Nigeria; 39% of girls are… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Child marriage remains common in Northern Nigeria; 39% of girls are married before age 15, although the Marriage Rights Act banning marriage of girls under 18 was introduced on a federal level in 2008. Who acts: Child marriage, Marriage Rights Act. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its depend
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# Nigeria, sentence 631

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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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Child marriage remains common in Northern Nigeria; 39% of girls are married before age 15, although the Marriage Rights Act banning marriage of girls under 18 was introduced on a federal level in 2008.

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**Who acts:** Child marriage, Marriage Rights Act · **What happens:** remain, marry, ban, introduce · **To what, where:** marriage, 18, Marriage Rights Act, federal level, girls

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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 (Child marriage, Marriage Rights Act), 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:631
# text = Child marriage remains common in Northern Nigeria; 39% of girls are married before age 15, although the Marriage Rights Act banning marriage of girls under 18 was introduced on a federal level in 2008.
1	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Northern	Northern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	39	39	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
19	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Marriage	Marriage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	Rights	Rights	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	banning	ban	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present | Child marriage |  |  |  |  | common *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **marry** | present · passive |  |  |  |  | before age |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **ban** | gerund | the Marriage Rights Act *not said here* | marriage of girls |  | 18 |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer marriage=Theme |
| 4 | **introduce** | past · passive |  | the Marriage Rights Act |  | a federal level |  | in 2008 | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **marry** |  |  | girls |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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