Sierra Leone, sentence 88
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.
This ended its 16 years of running the colony.
Who acts: This, 16 years · What happens: end, run · To what, where: colony
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 (This, 16 years), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 ended | nsubj |
| 2 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 years | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ended | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 running | mark |
| 7 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 years | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 colony | det |
| 9 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 running | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | This | year | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | Company's 16 years not said here | the colony | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme colony=Trajectory |
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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