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title: They also claimed that the governor, a Mr. Dawes, ruled in an almost… — Freetown · tree and pragmatics
description: They also claimed that the governor, a Mr. Dawes, ruled in an almost tyrannical fashion, favoring certain people over others when ruling the settlement. Who acts: settlers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Freetown» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Freetown, sentence 54

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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 also claimed that the governor, a Mr. Dawes, ruled in an almost tyrannical fashion, favoring certain people over others when ruling the settlement.

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**Who acts:** settlers · **What happens:** claim, rule, favor · **To what, where:** governor, Dawes, tyrannical fashion, certain people, others, settlement

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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 (settlers), 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:54
# text = They also claimed that the governor, a Mr. Dawes, ruled in an almost tyrannical fashion, favoring certain people over others when ruling the settlement.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Dawes	Dawes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	tyrannical	tyrannical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	favoring	favor	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
20	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	ruling	rule	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | settlers *= settler* | the governor |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent governor=Topic |
| 2 | **rule** | participle |  | a Dawes  Mr. *not said here* |  | a tyrannical fashion |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **favor** | gerund | settlers *= settler* *not said here* | certain people |  | others |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 4 | **rule** | gerund | settlers *= settler* *not said here* | the settlement |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent settlement=Theme |

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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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