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title: They won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1980, 1994, and 2013, and have… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: They won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1980, 1994, and 2013, and have also hosted both the U17 and U20 FIFA World Cup. Who acts: Eagles. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 705

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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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They won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1980, 1994, and 2013, and have also hosted both the U17 and U20 FIFA World Cup.

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**Who acts:** Eagles · **What happens:** win, host · **To what, where:** Africa Cup, 1980

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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 (Eagles), 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:705
# text = They won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1980, 1994, and 2013, and have also hosted both the U17 and U20 FIFA World Cup.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	1994	1994	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	hosted	host	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
20	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc:preconj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
22	U17	U17	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	U20	U20	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	FIFA	FIFA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | Eagles *= eagle* | the Africa Cup of Nations |  | 1980 |  | 2013 *obl* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Eventuality |
| 2 | **host** | present · perfect | Eagles *= eagle* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the U17 World Cup *obl:agent* | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |

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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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