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title: In September 1970, Stevens declared another state of emergency to co… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: In September 1970, Stevens declared another state of emergency to counter an alleged officers' plot against him. Who acts: Stevens, alleged officers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 214

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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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In September 1970, Stevens declared another state of emergency to counter an alleged officers' plot against him.

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**Who acts:** Stevens, alleged officers · **What happens:** declare, counter, plot · **To what, where:** state, 1970, plot

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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 (Stevens, alleged officers), 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:214
# text = In September 1970, Stevens declared another state of emergency to counter an alleged officers' plot against him.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	1970	1970	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Stevens	Stevens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	counter	counter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	alleged	alleged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Stevens | another state of emergency |  | 1970  September |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Attribute |
| 2 | **counter** | to-infinitive | Stevens *not said here* | a alleged officers's plot |  |  |  | against Stevens | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Theme |
| 3 | **plot** |  | a alleged officers |  |  |  |  | against Stevens | nom plot «cognition transitive»: poss=agent against=obl |

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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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