Sierra Leone, sentence 51

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.

While the broader community included some women, the Black Poor seems to have exclusively consisted of men, some of whom developed relationships with local women and often married them.

Who acts: broader community, Black Poor, some · What happens: include, seem, have, consist, develop, marry · To what, where: women, relationships

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 (broader community, Black Poor, some), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 included	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 community	det
3	broader	broad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 community	amod
4	community	community	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 included	nsubj
5	included	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seems	advcl
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 women	det
7	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 included	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seems	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Poor	det
10	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Poor	compound
11	Poor	poor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seems	nsubj
12	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 have	mark
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 seems	xcomp
15	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	16 consisted	advmod
16	consisted	consist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 have	xcomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 men	case
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 consisted	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 developed	punct
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 developed	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 whom	case
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 some	nmod
23	developed	develop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seems	parataxis
24	relationships	relationship	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 developed	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 women	case
26	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 women	amod
27	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 developed	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 married	cc
29	often	often	ADV	_	30 married	advmod
30	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 developed	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 married	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	include	past	the broader community	some women		vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
2	seem	present	the Black Poor			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	have	to-infinitive	the Black Poor not said here			tree rules
4	consist	participle	the Black Poor not said here		of men; exclusively property	tree rules
5	develop	past	some	relationships	with local women	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Product
6	marry	past	some not said here	relationships = relationship	often property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Sierra Leone», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Pragmatics

Sierra Leone, sentence 51