Freetown, sentence 22
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.
They established the 'Province of Freedom' and the settlement of Granville Town on land purchased from local Koya Temne subchief King Tom and regent Naimbana.
Who acts: people · What happens: establish, purchase · To what, where: Province, land, local Temne subchief
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 (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 established | nsubj |
| 2 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Province | det |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Province | punct |
| 5 | Province | Province | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 established | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Freedom | case |
| 7 | Freedom | Freedom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Province | nmod |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Freedom | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 settlement | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 settlement | det |
| 11 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Freedom | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Town | case |
| 13 | Granville | Granville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Town | compound |
| 14 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 settlement | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Town | nmod |
| 17 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 land | acl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 subchief | case |
| 19 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 subchief | amod |
| 20 | Koya | Koya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Temne | compound |
| 21 | Temne | Temne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 subchief | compound |
| 22 | subchief | subchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 purchased | obl |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Tom | nmod:desc |
| 24 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 subchief | appos |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Naimbana | cc |
| 26 | regent | regent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Naimbana | amod |
| 27 | Naimbana | Naimbana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Tom | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past | people | the Province of Freedom and the settlement of Granville Town on land | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent province=Patient | ||||
| 2 | purchase | participle | land not said here | local Temne subchief | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from subchief=Source |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Freetown/22/