Sierra Leone, sentence 595
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 Sherbro are virtually all Christians, and their paramount chiefs had a history of intermarriage with British colonists and traders.
Who acts: Sherbro, paramount chiefs · What happens: be, have · To what, where: Christians, history
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 (Sherbro, paramount chiefs), 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 Sherbro | det |
| 2 | Sherbro | sherbro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Christians | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Christians | cop |
| 4 | virtually | virtually | ADV | _ | 6 Christians | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 Christians | det |
| 6 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 chiefs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | paramount | paramount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chiefs | compound |
| 11 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Christians | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 history | det |
| 14 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 intermarriage | case |
| 16 | intermarriage | intermarriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 history | nmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 colonists | case |
| 18 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 colonists | amod |
| 19 | colonists | colonist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 intermarriage | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 traders | cc |
| 21 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 colonists | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Christians | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Sherbro | all Christians | virtually property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | Christians's paramount chiefs | a history of intermarriage with British colonists and traders | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=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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