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title: He based the government on the rule of law and the separation of pow… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: He based the government on the rule of law and the separation of powers, with multiparty political institutions and fairly viable representative structures. Who acts: Margai, law, powers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 166

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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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He based the government on the rule of law and the separation of powers, with multiparty political institutions and fairly viable representative structures.

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**Who acts:** Margai, law, powers · **What happens:** base, rule, separate · **To what, where:** government, rule

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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 (Margai, law, powers), 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:166
# text = He based the government on the rule of law and the separation of powers, with multiparty political institutions and fairly viable representative structures.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	multiparty	multiparty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	institutions	institution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	viable	viable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	representative	representative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	structures	structure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | participle | Margai | the government |  | the rule of law and the separation of powers and multiparty political institutions and viable representative structures |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent government=Theme on rule=Source |
| 2 | **rule** |  | law |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 3 | **separate** |  | powers and multiparty political institutions and viable representative structures |  |  |  |  |  | nom separation «state intransitive»: of=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, «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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