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title: The NPRC junta immediately suspended the constitution, banned all po… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: The NPRC junta immediately suspended the constitution, banned all political parties, limited freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and enacted a rule-by-decree policy, in which soldiers were granted unlimited powers of administrative detention without charge or trial, and challenges against su
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 260

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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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The NPRC junta immediately suspended the constitution, banned all political parties, limited freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and enacted a rule-by-decree policy, in which soldiers were granted unlimited powers of administrative detention without charge or trial, and challenges against such detentions in court were precluded.

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**Who acts:** NPRC junta · **What happens:** suspend, ban, enact, grant, preclude · **To what, where:** constitution, political parties, rule, soldiers, challenges

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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 (NPRC junta), 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:260
# text = The NPRC junta immediately suspended the constitution, banned all political parties, limited freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and enacted a rule-by-decree policy, in which soldiers were granted unlimited powers of administrative detention without charge or trial, and challenges against such detentions in court were precluded.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	NPRC	NPRC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	junta	junta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	banned	ban	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	orphan	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	enacted	enact	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
36	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
39	unlimited	unlimited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	detention	detention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	without	without	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
46	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
50	challenges	challenge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
51	against	against	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	detentions	detention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
56	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux:pass	_	_
57	precluded	preclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suspend** | past | the NPRC junta | the constitution |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Theme |
| 2 | **ban** | past | the NPRC junta *not said here* | political parties |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer party=Theme |
| 3 | **enact** | past | the NPRC junta *not said here* | a rule and decree policy |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 4 | **grant** | past · passive |  | soldiers |  |  |  | without charge or trial; which *obl*; unlimited powers of administrative detention *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal power=Theme |
| 5 | **preclude** | past · passive |  | challenges against such detentions in court |  |  |  |  | vn exclude-107.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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