Freetown, sentence 149
From Wikipedia, «Freetown», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
For years this event coincided with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha until recently, as critics said such an event should not be held on the same day as Muslims celebrate Eid, as Islam is against the practices of secret societies and masquerades.
Who acts: event, critics, Muslims, Islam · What happens: coincide, say, not hold, celebrate, be · To what, where: event, Eid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Freetown». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (event, critics, Muslims, Islam), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 years | case |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 coincided | obl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 event | det |
| 4 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coincided | nsubj |
| 5 | coincided | coincide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 holiday | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 holiday | det |
| 8 | Muslim | Muslim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 holiday | amod |
| 9 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coincided | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Eid | case |
| 11 | Eid | Eid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 holiday | nmod |
| 12 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Eid | flat |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Adha | punct |
| 14 | Adha | Adha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Eid | flat |
| 15 | until | until | ADP | _ | 16 recently | case |
| 16 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 5 coincided | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 said | mark |
| 19 | critics | critic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 coincided | conj |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 event | det:predet |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 event | det |
| 23 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 held | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 held | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 held | advmod |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 held | aux:pass |
| 27 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 said | ccomp |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 day | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 day | det |
| 30 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 day | amod |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 held | obl |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 celebrate | mark |
| 33 | Muslims | Muslim | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 celebrate | nsubj |
| 34 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 held | advcl |
| 35 | Eid | Eid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 celebrate | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 practices | punct |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 practices | case |
| 38 | Islam | Islam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 practices | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 practices | cop |
| 40 | against | against | ADP | _ | 42 practices | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 practices | det |
| 42 | practices | practice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 held | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 societies | case |
| 44 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 societies | amod |
| 45 | societies | society | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 practices | nmod |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 masquerades | cc |
| 47 | masquerades | masquerade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 societies | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 coincided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coincide | past | this event | year | with the Muslim holiday of Eid | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with holiday=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | critics | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not hold | should · passive | such event | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | celebrate | present | Muslims | Eid | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eid=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | Islam | as the practices; of secret societies and masquerades | 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, «Freetown», 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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