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title: Although the established arrangement between Europeans and the Koya… — Freetown · tree and pragmatics
description: Although the established arrangement between Europeans and the Koya Temne included provisions for permanent settlement, some historians question how well the Koya leaders understood the agreement, as they had a different conception of the uses of property. Who acts: Koya Temne, historians, Koya lead
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# Freetown, sentence 24

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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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Although the established arrangement between Europeans and the Koya Temne included provisions for permanent settlement, some historians question how well the Koya leaders understood the agreement, as they had a different conception of the uses of property.

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**Who acts:** Koya Temne, historians, Koya leaders, leaders, different conception · **What happens:** establish, include, question, understand, have, use · **To what, where:** provisions, agreement, different conception · **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 (Koya Temne, historians, Koya leaders, leaders), 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:24
# text = Although the established arrangement between Europeans and the Koya Temne included provisions for permanent settlement, some historians question how well the Koya leaders understood the agreement, as they had a different conception of the uses of property.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Koya	Koya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Temne	Temne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	included	include	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	question	question	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Koya	Koya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	conception	conception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **include** | past | the Koya Temne | provisions |  |  |  | for permanent settlement | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=Theme |
| 3 | **question** *speech: other* | present | some historians |  |  |  |  | the established arrangement between Europeans *advcl* | tree rules |
| 4 | **understand** | past | the Koya leaders | the agreement |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer agreement=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** | past | leaders *= leader* | a different conception |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conception=Patient |
| 6 | **use** | present | a different conception *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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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