Sierra Leone, sentence 83
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 Sierra Leone Company, controlled by London investors, refused to allow the settlers to take freehold of the land.
Who acts: Sierra Leone Company, settlers · What happens: control, refuse, not allow, take · To what, where: Sierra Leone Company, settlers, freehold
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 Leone Company, settlers), 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 | 4 Company | det |
| 2 | Sierra | Sierra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Company | compound |
| 3 | Leone | Leone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Company | compound |
| 4 | Company | Company | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 refused | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 controlled | punct |
| 6 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Company | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 investors | case |
| 8 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 investors | compound |
| 9 | investors | investor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 controlled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Company | punct |
| 11 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 allow | mark |
| 13 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 refused | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 settlers | det |
| 15 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 allow | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 allow | xcomp |
| 18 | freehold | freehold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 land | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 land | det |
| 21 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 freehold | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | control | participle | the Sierra Leone Company not said here | by London investors | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | refuse | past | the Sierra Leone Company | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not allow | to-infinitive | the Sierra Leone Company not said here | the settlers | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer settler=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the settlers not said here | freehold of the land | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freehold=Theme |
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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