Sierra Leone, sentence 92
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.
These Liberated Africans or recaptives were sold for $20 a head as apprentices to the white settlers, Nova Scotian Settlers, and the Jamaican Maroons.
What happens: liberate, sell · To what, where: Liberated Africans, white settlers
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: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 Africans | det |
| 2 | Liberated | liberate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Africans | amod |
| 3 | Africans | African | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 recaptives | cc |
| 5 | recaptives | recaptive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sold | aux:pass |
| 7 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 $ | case |
| 9 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 7 sold | obl |
| 10 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 $ | nummod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 head | det |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 $ | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 apprentices | case |
| 14 | apprentices | apprentice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sold | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 settlers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 settlers | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 settlers | amod |
| 18 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sold | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Nova | punct |
| 20 | Nova | Nova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 settlers | appos |
| 21 | Scotian | Scotian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Settlers | compound |
| 22 | Settlers | Settler | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 Nova | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Maroons | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Maroons | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Maroons | det |
| 26 | Jamaican | Jamaican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Maroons | amod |
| 27 | Maroons | maroon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sold | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | liberate | participle | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | sell | past · passive | this Liberated Africans | the white settlers | as apprentices; recaptives nsubj:pass; the Jamaican Maroons conj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme for $=Asset to settler=Recipient |
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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