Sierra Leone, sentence 314
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.
Also in 2004, a UN-backed war crimes court began holding trials of senior leaders from both sides of the war.
Who acts: crimes court · What happens: begin, hold, try · To what, where: trials, sides, senior leaders
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 (crimes court), 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 10 began | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 2004 | case |
| 3 | 2004 | 2004 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Also | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Also | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 court | det |
| 6 | UN-backed | un-backed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crimes | amod |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crimes | compound |
| 8 | crimes | crime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 court | compound |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 began | xcomp |
| 12 | trials | trial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 holding | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 leaders | case |
| 14 | senior | senior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 leaders | amod |
| 15 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 trials | nmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 sides | case |
| 17 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 sides | det |
| 18 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 holding | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 war | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 war | det |
| 21 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sides | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | a crimes court | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | a crimes court not said here | trials of senior leaders | both sides of the war | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trial=Theme | |||
| 3 | try | senior leaders | nom trial «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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