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title: Towards the end of the festival, a couple of musical concerts are us… — Freetown · tree and pragmatics
description: Towards the end of the festival, a couple of musical concerts are usually held in the main bowl of the stadium, with performances from local and international musical artists (especially contemporary artists from Nigeria and other African countries or the African diaspora). A sentence of Wikipedia's
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# Freetown, sentence 152

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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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Towards the end of the festival, a couple of musical concerts are usually held in the main bowl of the stadium, with performances from local and international musical artists (especially contemporary artists from Nigeria and other African countries or the African diaspora).

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**What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** couple, main bowl

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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: 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:152
# text = Towards the end of the festival, a couple of musical concerts are usually held in the main bowl of the stadium, with performances from local and international musical artists (especially contemporary artists from Nigeria and other African countries or the African diaspora).
1	Towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	concerts	concert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stadium	stadium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	performances	performance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	appos	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	diaspora	diaspora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present · passive |  | a couple of musical concerts |  | the main bowl of the stadium | towards the end of the festival | with performances from local musical artists; usually *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in bowl=Location |

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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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