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title: While the primary source of new slaves were the newly conquered Haus… — Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: While the primary source of new slaves were the newly conquered Hausa peoples, raids on non-Muslim communities and other ethnic groups accused of not being true Muslims persisted. Who acts: true Muslims. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nigeria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nigeria, sentence 73

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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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While the primary source of new slaves were the newly conquered Hausa peoples, raids on non-Muslim communities and other ethnic groups accused of not being true Muslims persisted.

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**Who acts:** true Muslims · **What happens:** conquer, accuse, not be, persist · **To what, where:** Hausa peoples, other ethnic groups, primary source

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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 (true Muslims), 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:73
# text = While the primary source of new slaves were the newly conquered Hausa peoples, raids on non-Muslim communities and other ethnic groups accused of not being true Muslims persisted.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	nmod	_	_
10	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	Hausa	Hausa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	raids	raid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	non-Muslim	non-muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	accused	accuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
27	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	persisted	persist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | past |  | Hausa peoples and raids on non-Muslim communities and other ethnic groups |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 2 | **accuse** | participle |  | other ethnic groups *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **persist** | past | true Muslims |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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