Sierra Leone, sentence 509
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.
The government is constitutionally forbidden to establish a state religion, though Muslim and Christian prayers are usually held at the beginning of major political occasions.
What happens: forbid, establish, hold, begin · To what, where: government, state religion, Muslim prayers, beginning, major political occasions
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 government | det |
| 2 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forbidden | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 4 | constitutionally | constitutionally | ADV | _ | 5 forbidden | advmod |
| 5 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 establish | mark |
| 7 | establish | establish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forbidden | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 religion | det |
| 9 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 religion | compound |
| 10 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 establish | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 held | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 held | mark |
| 13 | Muslim | Muslim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 prayers | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Christian | cc |
| 15 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Muslim | conj |
| 16 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 held | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 held | aux:pass |
| 18 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 19 held | advmod |
| 19 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 forbidden | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 beginning | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beginning | det |
| 22 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 held | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 occasions | case |
| 24 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 occasions | amod |
| 25 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 occasions | amod |
| 26 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 beginning | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forbidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | present · passive | the government | constitutionally property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | establish | to-infinitive | a state religion | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Patient | |||||
| 3 | hold | present · passive | Muslim prayers | at the beginning of major political occasions | usually property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at beginning=Location | |||
| 4 | begin | major political occasions | nom beginning «event 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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