Sierra Leone, sentence 108
From Wikipedia, «Sierra Leone», 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.
European missionaries established these schools with an agenda to convert the native people to their religion, but the educational efforts did not relate to local needs.
Who acts: European missionaries, educational efforts · What happens: establish, convert, not relate · To what, where: schools, native people
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sierra Leone». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (European missionaries, educational efforts), 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 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 missionaries | amod |
| 2 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 established | nsubj |
| 3 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 schools | det |
| 5 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 established | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 agenda | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 agenda | det |
| 8 | agenda | agenda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 established | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 convert | mark |
| 10 | convert | convert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 established | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 12 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 convert | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 religion | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 religion | nmod:poss |
| 16 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 people | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 relate | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 relate | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 efforts | det |
| 20 | educational | educational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 efforts | amod |
| 21 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 relate | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 relate | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 relate | advmod |
| 24 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 established | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 needs | case |
| 26 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 needs | amod |
| 27 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 relate | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past | European missionaries | this schools | with a agenda | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent school=Theme with agenda=Source | |||
| 2 | convert | to-infinitive | European missionaries not said here | the native people | to missionaries's religion result | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Patient to religion=Result | |||
| 3 | not relate | past · do-support | the educational efforts | to local needs | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to need=Co-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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