Sierra Leone, sentence 214
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 September 1970, Stevens declared another state of emergency to counter an alleged officers' plot against him.
Who acts: Stevens, alleged officers · What happens: declare, counter, plot · To what, where: state, 1970, plot
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, alleged officers), 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 | _ | 3 1970 | case |
| 2 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 1970 | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | 1970 | 1970 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 declared | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1970 | punct |
| 5 | Stevens | Stevens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 declared | nsubj |
| 6 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 state | det |
| 8 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 declared | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 emergency | case |
| 10 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 state | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 counter | mark |
| 12 | counter | counter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 declared | advcl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 officers | det |
| 14 | alleged | alleged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 officers | amod |
| 15 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 plot | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 officers | case |
| 17 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 counter | obj |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 plot | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | Stevens | another state of emergency | 1970 September | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Attribute | |||
| 2 | counter | to-infinitive | Stevens not said here | a alleged officers's plot | against Stevens | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Theme | |||
| 3 | plot | a alleged officers | against Stevens | nom plot «cognition transitive»: poss=agent against=obl |
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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