Sierra Leone, sentence 184
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.
Within hours of taking office, Stevens was ousted in a bloodless military coup led by Brigadier General David Lansana, the commander of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces.
Who acts: hours · What happens: take, oust, lead · To what, where: office, Stevens, bloodless military coup
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 (hours), 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 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 2 hours | case |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ousted | obl |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 taking | mark |
| 4 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 hours | acl |
| 5 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taking | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hours | punct |
| 7 | Stevens | Stevens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ousted | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ousted | aux:pass |
| 9 | ousted | oust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 coup | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 coup | det |
| 12 | bloodless | bloodless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 coup | amod |
| 13 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 coup | amod |
| 14 | coup | coup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ousted | obl |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 coup | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 David | case |
| 17 | Brigadier | Brigadier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 David | compound |
| 18 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 David | nmod:desc |
| 19 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl:agent |
| 20 | Lansana | Lansana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 David | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 commander | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 commander | det |
| 23 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 David | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Forces | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Forces | det |
| 26 | Sierra | Sierra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Forces | compound |
| 27 | Leone | Leone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Sierra | flat |
| 28 | Armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Forces | amod |
| 29 | Forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 commander | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ousted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | hours not said here | office | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Theme | ||||
| 2 | oust | past · passive | Stevens | a bloodless military coup | hour | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | lead | participle | a bloodless military coup not said here | Brigadier David General obl:agent | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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