Sierra Leone, sentence 403
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.
Each has a directly elected local district council to exercise authority and carry out functions at a local level.
Who acts: Each · What happens: have, elect, exercise, carry out · To what, where: elected local district council, authority, functions, local level
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 (Each), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 council | det |
| 4 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 5 elected | advmod |
| 5 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 council | amod |
| 6 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 council | amod |
| 7 | district | district | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 council | amod |
| 8 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 exercise | mark |
| 10 | exercise | exercise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 council | acl |
| 11 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exercise | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carry | cc |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 exercise | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 carry | compound:prt |
| 15 | functions | function | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carry | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 level | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 level | det |
| 18 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 level | amod |
| 19 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carry | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Each | a elected local district council | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Patient | ||||
| 2 | elect | participle | directly property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | exercise | to-infinitive | Each not said here | authority | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Patient | ||||
| 4 | carry out | infinitive | Each not said here | functions | a local level | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent function=Eventuality |
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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