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title: After a long month of fasting, participants spend the day at home ea… — Freetown · tree and pragmatics
description: After a long month of fasting, participants spend the day at home eating, praying, and later head out to clubs to celebrate. Who acts: participants. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Freetown» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Freetown, sentence 156

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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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After a long month of fasting, participants spend the day at home eating, praying, and later head out to clubs to celebrate.

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**Who acts:** participants · **What happens:** spend, pray, celebrate · **To what, where:** head, home eating

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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 (participants), 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:156
# text = After a long month of fasting, participants spend the day at home eating, praying, and later head out to clubs to celebrate.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fasting	fasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	participants	participant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	spend	spend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	praying	pray	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | present | participants | head to clubs |  | home eating | day; month |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pray** | gerund | participants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **celebrate** | to-infinitive | participants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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