Sierra Leone, sentence 166
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.
He based the government on the rule of law and the separation of powers, with multiparty political institutions and fairly viable representative structures.
Who acts: Margai, law, powers · What happens: base, rule, separate · To what, where: government, rule
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 (Margai, law, powers), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 based | nsubj |
| 2 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 government | det |
| 4 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 based | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 rule | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rule | det |
| 7 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 based | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 law | case |
| 9 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rule | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 separation | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 separation | det |
| 12 | separation | separation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rule | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 powers | case |
| 14 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 separation | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 institutions | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 institutions | case |
| 17 | multiparty | multiparty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 institutions | compound |
| 18 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 institutions | amod |
| 19 | institutions | institution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 powers | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 structures | cc |
| 21 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 22 viable | advmod |
| 22 | viable | viable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 structures | amod |
| 23 | representative | representative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 structures | amod |
| 24 | structures | structure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 powers | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 based | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | base | participle | Margai | the government | the rule of law and the separation of powers and multiparty political institutions and viable representative structures | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent government=Theme on rule=Source | |||
| 2 | rule | law | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | separate | powers and multiparty political institutions and viable representative structures | nom separation «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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