Sierra Leone, sentence 426
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.
Much of the recovery depends on the success of the government's efforts to limit corruption by officials, which many feel was the chief cause of the civil war.
Who acts: Much, many · What happens: depend, limit, feel, be · To what, where: corruption, officials, chief cause
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 (Much, many), 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 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 depends | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 recovery | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 recovery | det |
| 4 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Much | nmod |
| 5 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 success | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 success | det |
| 8 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 depends | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 efforts | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 government | det |
| 11 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 government | case |
| 13 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 success | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 limit | mark |
| 15 | limit | limit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 depends | advcl |
| 16 | corruption | corruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 limit | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 officials | case |
| 18 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 limit | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feel | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 feel | obj |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 feel | nsubj |
| 22 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 officials | acl:relcl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 cause | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cause | det |
| 25 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cause | amod |
| 26 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 feel | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 war | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 war | det |
| 29 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 war | amod |
| 30 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cause | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 depends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | Much of the recovery | on the success of the government's efforts | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on success=Theme | ||||
| 2 | limit | to-infinitive | Much of the recovery not said here | corruption | by officials | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer corruption=Patient | |||
| 3 | feel | present | many | officials | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the chief cause | of the civil war | tree rules |
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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