Sierra Leone, sentence 668
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 service began broadcasting television in 1963, with coverage extended to all the districts in the country in 1978.
Who acts: service · What happens: begin, broadcast, extend · To what, where: broadcasting television, 1963, coverage, country
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 (service), 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 service | det |
| 2 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | broadcasting | broadcast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 television | amod |
| 5 | television | television | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1963 | case |
| 7 | 1963 | 1963 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 began | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 coverage | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 coverage | case |
| 10 | coverage | coverage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | parataxis |
| 11 | extended | extend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 coverage | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 districts | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 districts | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 districts | det |
| 15 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 extended | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 country | det |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 extended | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1978 | case |
| 20 | 1978 | 1978 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 extended | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the service | broadcasting television | 1963 | coverage parataxis | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent television=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | broadcast speech: other | gerund | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | extend | participle | coverage not said here | the country | to all districts; in 1978 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=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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