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title: The 1970s was the era of Fela Kuti, the pioneer of Afrobeat genre –… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The 1970s was the era of Fela Kuti, the pioneer of Afrobeat genre – fused from Highlife, Jazz and Yoruba Music. Who acts: 1970s. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 664

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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 1970s was the era of Fela Kuti, the pioneer of Afrobeat genre – fused from Highlife, Jazz and Yoruba Music.

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**Who acts:** 1970s · **What happens:** be, fuse · **To what, where:** era, Highlife

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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 (1970s), 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:664
# text = The 1970s was the era of Fela Kuti, the pioneer of Afrobeat genre – fused from Highlife, Jazz and Yoruba Music.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	1970s	1970s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Fela	Fela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Kuti	Kuti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pioneer	pioneer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Afrobeat	afrobeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	genre	genre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	fused	fuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Highlife	Highlife	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Jazz	Jazz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Yoruba	Yoruba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	Music	Music	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the 1970s | the era and the pioneer of Afrobeat genre |  |  |  | of Fela; the pioneer of Afrobeat genre *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fuse** | participle | the 1970s *not said here* |  |  | Highlife and Jazz and Yoruba |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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