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title: European missionaries established these schools with an agenda to co… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: European missionaries established these schools with an agenda to convert the native people to their religion, but the educational efforts did not relate to local needs. Who acts: European missionaries, educational efforts. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragma
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 108

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From Wikipedia, [«Sierra Leone»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone), 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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European missionaries established these schools with an agenda to convert the native people to their religion, but the educational efforts did not relate to local needs.

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**Who acts:** European missionaries, educational efforts · **What happens:** establish, convert, not relate · **To what, where:** schools, native people

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sierra Leone». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (European missionaries, educational efforts), 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:Sierra_Leone:108
# text = European missionaries established these schools with an agenda to convert the native people to their religion, but the educational efforts did not relate to local needs.
1	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	agenda	agenda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	convert	convert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	educational	educational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	relate	relate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	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 | **establish** | past | European missionaries | this schools |  |  |  | with a agenda | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent school=Theme with agenda=Source |
| 2 | **convert** | to-infinitive | European missionaries *not said here* | the native people |  |  |  | to missionaries's religion *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent people=Patient to religion=Result |
| 3 | **not** **relate** | past · do-support | the educational efforts |  |  |  |  | to local needs | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to need=Co-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, «Sierra Leone», 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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