Freetown, sentence 54
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 also claimed that the governor, a Mr. Dawes, ruled in an almost tyrannical fashion, favoring certain people over others when ruling the settlement.
Who acts: settlers · What happens: claim, rule, favor · To what, where: governor, Dawes, tyrannical fashion, certain people, others, settlement
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 (settlers), 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 | 3 claimed | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 claimed | advmod |
| 3 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 governor | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 governor | det |
| 6 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 claimed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Dawes | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Dawes | det |
| 9 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Dawes | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Dawes | Dawes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 governor | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ruled | punct |
| 12 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Dawes | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fashion | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fashion | det |
| 15 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 16 tyrannical | advmod |
| 16 | tyrannical | tyrannical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fashion | amod |
| 17 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ruled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 favoring | punct |
| 19 | favoring | favor | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 claimed | advcl |
| 20 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 people | amod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 favoring | obj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 others | case |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 favoring | obl |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 ruling | advmod |
| 25 | ruling | rule | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 favoring | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 settlement | det |
| 27 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ruling | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 claimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | past | settlers = settler | the governor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent governor=Topic | ||||
| 2 | rule | participle | a Dawes Mr. not said here | a tyrannical fashion | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | favor | gerund | settlers = settler not said here | certain people | others | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | rule | gerund | settlers = settler not said here | the settlement | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent settlement=Theme |
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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