Sierra Leone, sentence 439
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.
Rice is the most important staple crop in Sierra Leone, with 85 per cent of farmers cultivating it during the rainy season and an annual consumption of 76 kg (167.5 lbs) per person.
Who acts: Rice, farmers · What happens: be, cultivate, consume · To what, where: important staple crop, Sierra, cent, 76 kg
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 (Rice, farmers), 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 | Rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crop | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 crop | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crop | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 important | advmod |
| 5 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crop | amod |
| 6 | staple | staple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crop | compound |
| 7 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Sierra | case |
| 9 | Sierra | Sierra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 crop | nmod |
| 10 | Leone | Leone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sierra | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cent | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 cent | case |
| 13 | 85 | 85 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 cent | nummod |
| 14 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cent | compound |
| 15 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crop | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 farmers | case |
| 17 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cent | nmod |
| 18 | cultivating | cultivate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 farmers | acl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cultivating | obj |
| 20 | during | during | ADP | _ | 23 season | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 season | det |
| 22 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 season | amod |
| 23 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cultivating | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 consumption | cc |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 consumption | det |
| 26 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 consumption | amod |
| 27 | consumption | consumption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 season | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 kg | case |
| 29 | 76 | 76 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 kg | nummod |
| 30 | kg | kg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 consumption | nmod |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 lbs | punct |
| 32 | 167.5 | 167.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 lbs | nummod |
| 33 | lbs | lb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 kg | appos |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 lbs | punct |
| 35 | per | per | ADP | _ | 36 person | case |
| 36 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lbs | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 crop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Rice | the important staple crop | Sierra | 85 per cent of farmers parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 2 | cultivate | gerund | farmers not said here | cent | season | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 3 | consume | 76 kg | nom consumption «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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