Freetown, sentence 32
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.
Land grants and assistance in starting the settlements had been intermittent and slow.
Who acts: assistance, Land grants · What happens: start, be · To what, where: settlements
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 (assistance, Land grants), 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 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grants | compound |
| 2 | grants | grant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 intermittent | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 assistance | cc |
| 4 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grants | conj |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 starting | mark |
| 6 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 assistance | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 settlements | det |
| 8 | settlements | settlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 starting | obj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 intermittent | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 intermittent | cop |
| 11 | intermittent | intermittent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 slow | cc |
| 13 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 intermittent | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 intermittent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | gerund | assistance not said here | the settlements | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent settlement=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | Land grants and assistance | intermittent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Land grants and assistance not said here | 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.
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