Sierra Leone, sentence 260
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.
The NPRC junta immediately suspended the constitution, banned all political parties, limited freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and enacted a rule-by-decree policy, in which soldiers were granted unlimited powers of administrative detention without charge or trial, and challenges against such detentions in court were precluded.
Who acts: NPRC junta · What happens: suspend, ban, enact, grant, preclude · To what, where: constitution, political parties, rule, soldiers, challenges
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 (NPRC junta), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 junta | det |
| 2 | NPRC | NPRC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 junta | compound |
| 3 | junta | junta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suspended | nsubj |
| 4 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 suspended | advmod |
| 5 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 constitution | det |
| 7 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suspended | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 banned | punct |
| 9 | banned | ban | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suspended | conj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 political | advmod |
| 11 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 parties | amod |
| 12 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 banned | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 freedom | punct |
| 14 | limited | limited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 freedom | amod |
| 15 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 parties | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 speech | case |
| 17 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 freedom | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 freedom | cc |
| 19 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 speech | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 press | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 press | det |
| 22 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 freedom | orphan |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 enacted | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 enacted | cc |
| 25 | enacted | enact | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suspended | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 rule | det |
| 27 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 enacted | obj |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 policy | punct |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 policy | case |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 by | punct |
| 31 | decree | decree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 policy | compound |
| 32 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rule | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 granted | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 which | case |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 granted | obl |
| 36 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 granted | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 granted | aux:pass |
| 38 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 enacted | parataxis |
| 39 | unlimited | unlimited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 powers | amod |
| 40 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 granted | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 detention | case |
| 42 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 detention | amod |
| 43 | detention | detention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 powers | nmod |
| 44 | without | without | ADP | _ | 45 charge | case |
| 45 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 granted | obl |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 trial | cc |
| 47 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 charge | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 precluded | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 precluded | cc |
| 50 | challenges | challenge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 precluded | nsubj |
| 51 | against | against | ADP | _ | 53 detentions | case |
| 52 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 detentions | amod |
| 53 | detentions | detention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 challenges | nmod |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 court | case |
| 55 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 detentions | nmod |
| 56 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 precluded | aux:pass |
| 57 | precluded | preclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 suspended | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suspended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspend | past | the NPRC junta | the constitution | immediately property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Theme | |||
| 2 | ban | past | the NPRC junta not said here | political parties | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer party=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enact | past | the NPRC junta not said here | a rule and decree policy | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grant | past · passive | soldiers | without charge or trial; which obl; unlimited powers of administrative detention obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal power=Theme | ||||
| 5 | preclude | past · passive | challenges against such detentions in court | vn exclude-107.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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