Sierra Leone, sentence 498
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.
According to the World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Sierra Leone had a population of 8,700 refugees and asylum seekers at the end of 2007.
Who acts: Sierra · What happens: accord, publish, have · To what, where: World Refugee, population, end
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 (Sierra), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Refugee | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Refugee | det |
| 4 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Refugee | compound |
| 5 | Refugee | Refugee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obl |
| 6 | Survey | Survey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Refugee | flat |
| 7 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Survey | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 published | punct |
| 9 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Refugee | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Committee | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Committee | det |
| 12 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Committee | compound |
| 13 | Committee | committee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 published | obl:agent |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Refugees | case |
| 15 | Refugees | refugee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Committee | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Immigrants | cc |
| 17 | Immigrants | Immigrant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 Refugees | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Refugee | punct |
| 19 | Sierra | Sierra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 had | nsubj |
| 20 | Leone | Leone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sierra | flat |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 population | det |
| 23 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 refugees | case |
| 25 | 8,700 | 8,700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 refugees | nummod |
| 26 | refugees | refugee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 population | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 seekers | cc |
| 28 | asylum | asylum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seekers | compound |
| 29 | seekers | seeker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 refugees | conj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 end | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 end | det |
| 32 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 2007 | case |
| 34 | 2007 | 2007 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 end | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | publish | participle | the World Refugee not said here | the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants obl:agent | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Sierra | a population of 8,700 refugees and asylum seekers | at the end of 2007 | accord the World Refugee | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=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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