Sierra Leone, sentence 252
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.
After an alleged attempt to overthrow Momoh in March 1987, more than 60 senior government officials were arrested, including Vice-President Francis Minah, who was convicted of plotting the coup and executed by hanging in 1989.
What happens: overthrow, arrest, include, convict, plot, execute · To what, where: Momoh, 60 senior government officials, Vice-President Francis, coup, 1989
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: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 attempt | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 attempt | det |
| 3 | alleged | alleged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 attempt | amod |
| 4 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 arrested | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 overthrow | mark |
| 6 | overthrow | overthrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 attempt | acl |
| 7 | Momoh | Momoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 overthrow | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 March | case |
| 9 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Momoh | nmod |
| 10 | 1987 | 1987 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 Momoh | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 attempt | punct |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 14 60 | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 more | fixed |
| 14 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 officials | nummod |
| 15 | senior | senior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 officials | amod |
| 16 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 officials | compound |
| 17 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 arrested | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 arrested | aux:pass |
| 19 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Francis | punct |
| 21 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 Francis | case |
| 22 | Vice-President | Vice-President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Francis | compound |
| 23 | Francis | Francis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 arrested | obj |
| 24 | Minah | Minah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Francis | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 convicted | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 convicted | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 convicted | aux:pass |
| 28 | convicted | convict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 Francis | parataxis |
| 29 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 plotting | mark |
| 30 | plotting | plot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 convicted | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 coup | det |
| 32 | coup | coup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 plotting | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 executed | cc |
| 34 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 convicted | conj |
| 35 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 36 hanging | mark |
| 36 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 executed | advcl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 1989 | case |
| 38 | 1989 | 1989 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 hanging | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 arrested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overthrow | to-infinitive | Momoh 1987 | in March | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrest | past · passive | 60 senior government officials | after a alleged attempt | Vice-President Francis obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | convict | past · passive | Vice-President Francis | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | plot | gerund | the coup | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coup=Theme | |||||
| 6 | execute | participle | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | hang | gerund | 1989 | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in 1989=Location |
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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