Sierra Leone, sentence 129
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.
In 1898, Colonel Frederic Cardew, military governor of the Protectorate, imposed a new tax on dwellings and demanded that chiefs use their people to maintain roads.
Who acts: Colonel Cardew, chiefs · What happens: impose, demand, use, maintain · To what, where: new tax, 1898, people, roads · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Colonel Cardew, chiefs), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1898 | case |
| 2 | 1898 | 1898 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 imposed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1898 | punct |
| 4 | Colonel | Colonel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Cardew | compound |
| 5 | Frederic | Frederic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Colonel | flat |
| 6 | Cardew | Cardew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 imposed | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 governor | punct |
| 8 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 governor | amod |
| 9 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Cardew | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Protectorate | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Protectorate | det |
| 12 | Protectorate | Protectorate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 governor | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cardew | punct |
| 14 | imposed | impose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tax | det |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tax | amod |
| 17 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 imposed | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 dwellings | case |
| 19 | dwellings | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tax | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 demanded | cc |
| 21 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 imposed | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 use | mark |
| 23 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 use | nsubj |
| 24 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 demanded | ccomp |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 people | nmod:poss |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 use | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 maintain | mark |
| 28 | maintain | maintain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 use | advcl |
| 29 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 maintain | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 imposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | impose | past | Colonel Cardew | a new tax | 1898 | on dwellings | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Theme | ||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | Colonel Cardew not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | use | present | chiefs | chiefs's people | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 4 | maintain | to-infinitive | chiefs not said here | roads | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent road=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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