Sierra Leone, sentence 210
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 November 1968, unrest in the provinces led Stevens to declare a state of emergency across the country.
Who acts: unrest, Stevens · What happens: lead, declare · To what, where: Stevens, state, country
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 (unrest, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 November | case |
| 2 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 3 | 1968 | 1968 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 November | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 unrest | punct |
| 5 | unrest | unrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 provinces | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 provinces | det |
| 8 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 unrest | nmod |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Stevens | Stevens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 declare | mark |
| 12 | declare | declare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 led | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 state | det |
| 14 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 declare | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 emergency | case |
| 16 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 state | nmod |
| 17 | across | across | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 declare | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | unrest in the provinces | Stevens | november | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent stevens=Patient clause=Result | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | to-infinitive | Stevens not said here | a state of emergency | the country | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Attribute |
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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