Sierra Leone, sentence 187
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.
Stevens was later freed and fled the country, going into exile in neighbouring Guinea.
Who acts: Stevens · What happens: be, flee, go, neighbour · To what, where: country, exile
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 (Stevens), 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 | Stevens | Stevens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 freed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 freed | cop |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 freed | advmod |
| 4 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fled | cc |
| 6 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 freed | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fled | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fled | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 exile | case |
| 12 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 going | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Guinea | case |
| 14 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 Guinea | amod |
| 15 | Guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 going | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 freed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Stevens | free, late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | Stevens not said here | the country | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | Stevens not said here | exile | in neighbouring Guinea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into exile=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules |
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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