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title: For years this event coincided with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adh… — Freetown · tree and pragmatics
description: For years this event coincided with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha until recently, as critics said such an event should not be held on the same day as Muslims celebrate Eid, as Islam is against the practices of secret societies and masquerades. Who acts: event, critics, Muslims, Islam. A sentence
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# Freetown, sentence 149

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From Wikipedia, [«Freetown»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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For years this event coincided with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha until recently, as critics said such an event should not be held on the same day as Muslims celebrate Eid, as Islam is against the practices of secret societies and masquerades.

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**Who acts:** event, critics, Muslims, Islam · **What happens:** coincide, say, not hold, celebrate, be · **To what, where:** event, Eid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Freetown». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (event, critics, Muslims, Islam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Freetown:149
# text = For years this event coincided with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha until recently, as critics said such an event should not be held on the same day as Muslims celebrate Eid, as Islam is against the practices of secret societies and masquerades.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	coincided	coincide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Eid	Eid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Adha	Adha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
15	until	until	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	critics	critic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	23	det:predet	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
35	Eid	Eid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	against	against	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	practices	practice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	societies	society	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	masquerades	masquerade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coincide** | past | this event |  |  |  | year | with the Muslim holiday of Eid | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with holiday=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | critics |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **hold** | should · passive |  | such event |  |  | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **celebrate** | present | Muslims | Eid |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eid=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | Islam |  |  |  |  | as the practices; of secret societies and masquerades | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Freetown», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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