Sierra Leone, sentence 145
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.
The Colony was Freetown and its coastal area; the Protectorate was defined as the hinterland areas dominated by local chiefs.
Who acts: Colony, coastal area · What happens: be, define, dominate · To what, where: coastal area, Protectorate, hinterland areas
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 (Colony, coastal area), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Colony | det |
| 2 | Colony | Colony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 area | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 area | cop |
| 4 | Freetown | Freetown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 area | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 area | cc |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 area | nmod:poss |
| 7 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 area | amod |
| 8 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 defined | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Protectorate | det |
| 11 | Protectorate | Protectorate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 defined | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 defined | aux:pass |
| 13 | defined | define | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 area | acl:relcl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 areas | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 areas | det |
| 16 | hinterland | hinterland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 areas | compound |
| 17 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 defined | obl |
| 18 | dominated | dominate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 areas | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 chiefs | case |
| 20 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 chiefs | amod |
| 21 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dominated | obl:agent |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 area | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Colony | system's coastal area | Freetown nsubj; system nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | define | past · passive | system's coastal area not said here | the Protectorate | as the hinterland areas | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as area=Attribute | |||
| 3 | dominate | participle | the hinterland areas not said here | local chiefs obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V»: agent=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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