--- title: A notable exponent of the genre were the genre's first Nigerian boy… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: A notable exponent of the genre were the genre's first Nigerian boy band Oriental Brothers International, Bobby Benson, Osita Osadebe, Victor Olaiya, Rex Lawson, Dr Sir Warrior and Oliver De Coque. Who acts: notable exponent. 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A notable exponent of the genre were the genre's first Nigerian boy band Oriental Brothers International, Bobby Benson, Osita Osadebe, Victor Olaiya, Rex Lawson, Dr Sir Warrior and Oliver De Coque. **Who acts:** notable exponent · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** first Nigerian boy band 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 (notable exponent), 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:663 # text = A notable exponent of the genre were the genre's first Nigerian boy band Oriental Brothers International, Bobby Benson, Osita Osadebe, Victor Olaiya, Rex Lawson, Dr Sir Warrior and Oliver De Coque. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 notable notable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 exponent exponent NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 genre genre NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 genre genre NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 amod _ _ 12 Nigerian nigerian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 15 Oriental Oriental PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 Brothers Brothers PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 International International PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Bobby Bobby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 Benson Benson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Osita Osita PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 23 Osadebe Osadebe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 Victor Victor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Olaiya Olaiya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Rex Rex PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 29 Lawson Lawson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 Dr Dr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:desc _ _ 32 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 33 Warrior Warrior PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 flat _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 Oliver Oliver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 36 De De PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 flat _ _ 37 Coque Coque PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | a notable exponent of the genre | the genre's first Nigerian boy band | | | | the genre *nmod:poss*; Oriental Brothers International and Bobby and Osita and Victor Olaiya and Sir Dr and Oliver *appos* | tree rules | 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 662](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nigeria/662/) - next →: [sentence 664](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nigeria/664/) - ↑ back to [Nigeria](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nigeria/)