Sierra Leone, sentence 87
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.
On 1 January 1808, Thomas Ludlam, the Governor of the Sierra Leone Company and a leading abolitionist, surrendered the company's charter.
Who acts: Thomas, company · What happens: lead, surrender, charter · To what, where: charter
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 (Thomas, company), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 January | case |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 January | nummod |
| 3 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 surrendered | obl |
| 4 | 1808 | 1808 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 January | list |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Thomas | punct |
| 6 | Thomas | Thomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 surrendered | nsubj |
| 7 | Ludlam | Ludlam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Thomas | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Governor | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Governor | det |
| 10 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Thomas | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Company | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Company | det |
| 13 | Sierra | Sierra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Company | compound |
| 14 | Leone | Leone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Company | compound |
| 15 | Company | Company | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Governor | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 abolitionist | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 abolitionist | det |
| 18 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 abolitionist | amod |
| 19 | abolitionist | abolitionist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Thomas | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Thomas | punct |
| 21 | surrendered | surrender | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 company | det |
| 23 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 charter | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 company | case |
| 25 | charter | charter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 surrendered | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 surrendered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | surrender | past | Thomas and the Governor of the Sierra Leone Company and a leading abolitionist | the company's charter | january | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent charter=Theme | |||
| 3 | charter | the company | nom charter «communication transitive»: poss=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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