Sierra Leone, sentence 269
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 maintained relations with ECOWAS and strengthened support for Sierra Leone-based ECOMOG troops fighting in the Liberian war.
Who acts: NPRC, based ECOMOG troops · What happens: maintain, strengthen, base, fight · To what, where: relations, support, Liberian war
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, based ECOMOG troops), 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 | 2 NPRC | det |
| 2 | NPRC | NPRC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 maintained | nsubj |
| 3 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 maintained | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 ECOWAS | case |
| 6 | ECOWAS | ECOWAS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 relations | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 strengthened | cc |
| 8 | strengthened | strengthen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 maintained | conj |
| 9 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strengthened | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Sierra | case |
| 11 | Sierra | Sierra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 strengthened | obl |
| 12 | Leone | Leone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sierra | flat |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Leone | punct |
| 14 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 troops | amod |
| 15 | ECOMOG | ecomog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 troops | compound |
| 16 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 Sierra | nmod |
| 17 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 troops | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 war | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 war | det |
| 20 | Liberian | Liberian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 war | compound |
| 21 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fighting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 maintained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maintain | past | the NPRC | relations | with ECOWAS | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent relation=Theme | |||
| 2 | strengthen | past | the NPRC not said here | support | for Sierra based ECOMOG troops | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent support=Patient | |||
| 3 | base | participle | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | fight | gerund | based ECOMOG troops not said here | the Liberian war | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Sierra Leone», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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