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title: They established the 'Province of Freedom' and the settlement of Gra… — Freetown · tree and pragmatics
description: They established the 'Province of Freedom' and the settlement of Granville Town on land purchased from local Koya Temne subchief King Tom and regent Naimbana. Who acts: people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Freetown» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Freetown, sentence 22

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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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They established the 'Province of Freedom' and the settlement of Granville Town on land purchased from local Koya Temne subchief King Tom and regent Naimbana.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** establish, purchase · **To what, where:** Province, land, local Temne subchief

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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 (people), 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:22
# text = They established the 'Province of Freedom' and the settlement of Granville Town on land purchased from local Koya Temne subchief King Tom and regent Naimbana.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Province	Province	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Freedom	Freedom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Granville	Granville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	purchased	purchase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	Koya	Koya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Temne	Temne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	subchief	subchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:desc	_	_
24	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	regent	regent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Naimbana	Naimbana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past | people | the Province of Freedom and the settlement of Granville Town on land |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent province=Patient |
| 2 | **purchase** | participle |  | land *not said here* |  | local Temne subchief |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from subchief=Source |

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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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