Sierra Leone, sentence 217
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.
Among the soldiers arrested was an army corporal, Foday Sankoh, a strong Bangura supporter, who later formed the Revolutionary United Front (RUF).
Who acts: soldiers, strong Bangura supporter · What happens: arrest, be, form · To what, where: army corporal, Revolutionary United Front
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 (soldiers, strong Bangura supporter), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 soldiers | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldiers | det |
| 3 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arrested | nsubj |
| 4 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 corporal | acl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 corporal | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 corporal | det |
| 7 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 corporal | compound |
| 8 | corporal | corporal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Foday | punct |
| 10 | Foday | Foday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 corporal | appos |
| 11 | Sankoh | Sankoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Foday | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 supporter | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 supporter | det |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 supporter | amod |
| 15 | Bangura | Bangura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 supporter | compound |
| 16 | supporter | supporter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Foday | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 formed | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 formed | nsubj |
| 19 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 formed | advmod |
| 20 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 supporter | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Front | det |
| 22 | Revolutionary | Revolutionary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Front | compound |
| 23 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Front | amod |
| 24 | Front | Front | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 formed | obl |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 RUF | punct |
| 26 | RUF | RUF | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Front | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 RUF | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 corporal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrest | past | the soldiers | a army corporal not said here | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corporal=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a army corporal | Foday appos | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | form | past | a strong Bangura supporter | the Revolutionary United Front | late property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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