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title: Within hours of taking office, Stevens was ousted in a bloodless mil… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: Within hours of taking office, Stevens was ousted in a bloodless military coup led by Brigadier General David Lansana, the commander of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces. Who acts: hours. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 184

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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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Within hours of taking office, Stevens was ousted in a bloodless military coup led by Brigadier General David Lansana, the commander of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces.

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**Who acts:** hours · **What happens:** take, oust, lead · **To what, where:** office, Stevens, bloodless military coup

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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 (hours), 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:184
# text = Within hours of taking office, Stevens was ousted in a bloodless military coup led by Brigadier General David Lansana, the commander of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces.
1	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Stevens	Stevens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	ousted	oust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	bloodless	bloodless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Brigadier	Brigadier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl:agent	_	_
20	Lansana	Lansana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
27	Leone	Leone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	Armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | hours *not said here* | office |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Theme |
| 2 | **oust** | past · passive |  | Stevens |  | a bloodless military coup | hour |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | participle |  | a bloodless military coup *not said here* |  |  |  | Brigadier David  General *obl:agent* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |

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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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