--- title: After an alleged attempt to overthrow Momoh in March 1987, more than… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics description: After an alleged attempt to overthrow Momoh in March 1987, more than 60 senior government officials were arrested, including Vice-President Francis Minah, who was convicted of plotting the coup and executed by hanging in 1989. 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After an alleged attempt to overthrow Momoh in March 1987, more than 60 senior government officials were arrested, including Vice-President Francis Minah, who was convicted of plotting the coup and executed by hanging in 1989. **What happens:** overthrow, arrest, include, convict, plot, execute · **To what, where:** Momoh, 60 senior government officials, Vice-President Francis, coup, 1989 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:252 # text = After an alleged attempt to overthrow Momoh in March 1987, more than 60 senior government officials were arrested, including Vice-President Francis Minah, who was convicted of plotting the coup and executed by hanging in 1989. 1 After after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 alleged alleged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 attempt attempt NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 overthrow overthrow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 Momoh Momoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 1987 1987 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 14 advmod _ _ 13 than than ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 60 60 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 15 senior senior ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 arrested arrest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 including include VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 case _ _ 22 Vice-President Vice-President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Francis Francis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 Minah Minah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 convicted convict VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 parataxis _ _ 29 of of SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 plotting plot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 coup coup NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 executed execute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 35 by by SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 hanging hang VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 advcl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 1989 1989 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **overthrow** | to-infinitive | | Momoh 1987 | | | | in March | tree rules | | 2 | **arrest** | past · passive | | 60 senior government officials | | | after a alleged attempt | Vice-President Francis *obj* | tree rules | | 3 | **include** | gerund | | | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **convict** | past · passive | | Vice-President Francis | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **plot** | gerund | | the coup | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coup=Theme | | 6 | **execute** | participle | | | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **hang** | gerund | | | | 1989 | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in 1989=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 251](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sierra_Leone/251/) - next →: [sentence 253](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sierra_Leone/253/) - ↑ back to [Sierra Leone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sierra_Leone/)