Sierra Leone, sentence 7
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.
Sierra Leone is a presidential republic, with a unicameral parliament and a directly elected president.
Who acts: Sierra · What happens: be, elect · To what, where: presidential republic
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 (Sierra), 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 | Sierra | Sierra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 republic | nsubj |
| 2 | Leone | Leone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sierra | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 republic | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 republic | det |
| 5 | presidential | presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 republic | amod |
| 6 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 parliament | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 parliament | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 parliament | det |
| 10 | unicameral | unicameral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 parliament | amod |
| 11 | parliament | parliament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 republic | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 president | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 president | det |
| 14 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 15 elected | advmod |
| 15 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 president | amod |
| 16 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 parliament | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 republic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sierra | a presidential republic | a unicameral parliament and a elected president parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | elect | participle | directly property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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