Sierra Leone, sentence 284
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 his first public broadcast to the nation after the 1996 coup, Brigadier Bio said that returning Sierra Leone to a democratically elected civilian government and ending the civil war were his motivations for the coup.
Who acts: Brigadier, ending, Strasser · What happens: say, return, elect, end, be, broadcast · To what, where: first public broadcast, Sierra Leone, elected civilian government, civil war, motivations · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Brigadier, ending, Strasser), 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 | _ | 5 broadcast | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 broadcast | nmod:poss |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 broadcast | amod |
| 4 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 broadcast | amod |
| 5 | broadcast | broadcast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 nation | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nation | det |
| 8 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broadcast | nmod |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 coup | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 coup | det |
| 11 | 1996 | 1996 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 coup | nummod |
| 12 | coup | coup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nation | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 broadcast | punct |
| 14 | Brigadier | Brigadier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 15 | Bio | Bio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brigadier | flat |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 returning | mark |
| 18 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 said | advcl |
| 19 | Sierra | Sierra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Leone | compound |
| 20 | Leone | leone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returning | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 government | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 government | det |
| 23 | democratically | democratically | ADV | _ | 24 elected | advmod |
| 24 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 government | amod |
| 25 | civilian | civilian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 government | amod |
| 26 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returning | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ending | cc |
| 28 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 motivations | csubj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 war | det |
| 30 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 war | amod |
| 31 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ending | obj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 motivations | cop |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 motivations | nmod:poss |
| 34 | motivations | motivation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 returning | obl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 coup | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 coup | det |
| 37 | coup | coup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 motivations | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Brigadier | Strasser's first public broadcast to the nation after the 1996 coup | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in broadcast=Manner | ||||
| 2 | return | gerund | Brigadier not said here | Sierra Leone | a elected civilian government | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leone=Theme to government=Destination | |||
| 3 | elect | participle | democratically property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | end | gerund | the civil war | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | ending | Strasser's motivations | for the coup; Strasser nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 6 | broadcast | Strasser | to the nation after the 1996 coup | nom broadcast «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=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.
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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