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title: Most Nigerian literature is written in English, partly because this… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
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# Nigeria, sentence 652

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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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Most Nigerian literature is written in English, partly because this language is understood by most Nigerians.

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**Who acts:** most Nigerians · **What happens:** write, understand · **To what, where:** Most Nigerian literature, English, language

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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 (most Nigerians), 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:652
# text = Most Nigerian literature is written in English, partly because this language is understood by most Nigerians.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	Nigerian	nigerian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	understood	understand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	Nigerians	Nigerian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present · passive |  | Most Nigerian literature |  | English |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in english=Destination |
| 2 | **understand** | present · passive | most Nigerians | this language |  |  |  | partly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |

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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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