Sierra Leone, sentence 579
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 Kuranko are primarily farmers; leaders among them have traditionally held several senior positions in the military.
Who acts: Kuranko · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: farmers, several senior positions, military
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 (Kuranko), 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 Kuranko | det |
| 2 | Kuranko | Kuranko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 farmers | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 farmers | cop |
| 4 | primarily | primarily | ADV | _ | 5 farmers | advmod |
| 5 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 held | parataxis |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaders | punct |
| 7 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 farmers | conj |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leaders | nmod |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 held | aux |
| 11 | traditionally | traditionally | ADV | _ | 12 held | advmod |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 positions | amod |
| 14 | senior | senior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 positions | amod |
| 15 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 held | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 military | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 military | det |
| 18 | military | military | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Kuranko | farmers and leaders among farmers | leaders among farmers conj; primarily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold | present · perfect | several senior positions | the military | traditionally property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent position=Theme in military=Location |
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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