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title: The liberated Africans established the suburbs of Freetown Peninsula. — Freetown · tree and pragmatics
description: The liberated Africans established the suburbs of Freetown Peninsula. Who acts: liberated Africans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Freetown» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Freetown, sentence 76

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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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The liberated Africans established the suburbs of Freetown Peninsula.

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**Who acts:** liberated Africans · **What happens:** liberate, establish · **To what, where:** suburbs

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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 (liberated Africans), 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:76
# text = The liberated Africans established the suburbs of Freetown Peninsula.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	liberated	liberate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	Africans	African	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Freetown	Freetown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **liberate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **establish** | past | the liberated Africans | the suburbs of Freetown Peninsula |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suburb=Patient |

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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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