Freetown, sentence 24
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.
Although the established arrangement between Europeans and the Koya Temne included provisions for permanent settlement, some historians question how well the Koya leaders understood the agreement, as they had a different conception of the uses of property.
Who acts: Koya Temne, historians, Koya leaders, leaders, different conception · What happens: establish, include, question, understand, have, use · To what, where: provisions, agreement, different conception · 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 (Koya Temne, historians, Koya leaders, leaders), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 4 arrangement | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 arrangement | det |
| 3 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 arrangement | amod |
| 4 | arrangement | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 question | advcl |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 Europeans | case |
| 6 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 arrangement | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 included | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Temne | det |
| 9 | Koya | Koya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Temne | compound |
| 10 | Temne | Temne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 included | nsubj |
| 11 | included | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Europeans | conj |
| 12 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 included | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 settlement | case |
| 14 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 settlement | amod |
| 15 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 included | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrangement | punct |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 historians | det |
| 18 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 question | nsubj |
| 19 | question | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 well | advmod |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 understood | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 leaders | det |
| 23 | Koya | Koya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 leaders | compound |
| 24 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 understood | nsubj |
| 25 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 question | ccomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 agreement | det |
| 27 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 understood | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 had | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 question | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 conception | det |
| 33 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 conception | amod |
| 34 | conception | conception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | obj |
| 35 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 37 uses | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 uses | det |
| 37 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 conception | acl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 property | case |
| 39 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 uses | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 question | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | participle | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | include | past | the Koya Temne | provisions | for permanent settlement | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=Theme | |||
| 3 | question speech: other | present | some historians | the established arrangement between Europeans advcl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | understand | past | the Koya leaders | the agreement | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer agreement=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | have | past | leaders = leader | a different conception | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conception=Patient | ||||
| 6 | use | present | a different conception not said here | of property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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