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title: By 2016, this record was held by The Wedding Party by Kemi Adetiba. — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: By 2016, this record was held by The Wedding Party by Kemi Adetiba. Who acts: Wedding Party. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 682

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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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By 2016, this record was held by The Wedding Party by Kemi Adetiba.

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**Who acts:** Wedding Party · **What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** record

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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 (Wedding Party), 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:682
# text = By 2016, this record was held by The Wedding Party by Kemi Adetiba.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Wedding	Wedding	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Party	Party	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Kemi	Kemi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	Adetiba	Adetiba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive | the Wedding Party | this record |  |  |  | by 2016; by Kemi | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme by 2016=Location |

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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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