Sierra Leone, sentence 596
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.
A small number of Sierra Leoneans are of partial or full Lebanese ancestry, descendants of traders who first came to the territory in the 19th century.
Who acts: small number, traders · What happens: be, come · To what, where: territory
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 (small number, traders), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 number | amod |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ancestry | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Leoneans | case |
| 5 | Sierra | Sierra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Leoneans | compound |
| 6 | Leoneans | Leonean | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ancestry | cop |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ancestry | case |
| 9 | partial | partial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ancestry | amod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 full | cc |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 partial | conj |
| 12 | Lebanese | Lebanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ancestry | amod |
| 13 | ancestry | ancestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 descendants | punct |
| 15 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ancestry | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 traders | case |
| 17 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 descendants | nmod |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 came | nsubj |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 came | advmod |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 traders | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 territory | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 territory | det |
| 23 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 century | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 century | det |
| 26 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 27 century | amod |
| 27 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ancestry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a small number of Sierra Leoneans | of partial Lebanese ancestry and descendants of traders; descendants of traders conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | traders | the territory | century | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to territory=Initial_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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