Freetown, sentence 152
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.
Towards the end of the festival, a couple of musical concerts are usually held in the main bowl of the stadium, with performances from local and international musical artists (especially contemporary artists from Nigeria and other African countries or the African diaspora).
What happens: hold · To what, where: couple, main bowl
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: 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 | Towards | towards | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 festival | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 festival | det |
| 6 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 couple | det |
| 9 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 concerts | case |
| 11 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 concerts | amod |
| 12 | concerts | concert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 couple | nmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 held | aux:pass |
| 14 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 held | advmod |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 bowl | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bowl | det |
| 18 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bowl | amod |
| 19 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 stadium | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stadium | det |
| 22 | stadium | stadium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bowl | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 performances | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 performances | case |
| 25 | performances | performance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 held | obl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 artists | case |
| 27 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 artists | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 international | cc |
| 29 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 local | conj |
| 30 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 artists | amod |
| 31 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 performances | nmod |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 artists | punct |
| 33 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 35 artists | advmod |
| 34 | contemporary | contemporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 artists | amod |
| 35 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 artists | appos |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 Nigeria | case |
| 37 | Nigeria | Nigeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 artists | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 countries | cc |
| 39 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 countries | amod |
| 40 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 countries | amod |
| 41 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 Nigeria | conj |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 diaspora | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 diaspora | det |
| 44 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 diaspora | amod |
| 45 | diaspora | diaspora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Nigeria | conj |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 artists | punct |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present · passive | a couple of musical concerts | the main bowl of the stadium | towards the end of the festival | with performances from local musical artists; usually property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in bowl=Location |
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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