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title: The NPRC maintained relations with ECOWAS and strengthened support f… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: The NPRC maintained relations with ECOWAS and strengthened support for Sierra Leone-based ECOMOG troops fighting in the Liberian war. Who acts: NPRC, based ECOMOG troops. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 269

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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 maintained relations with ECOWAS and strengthened support for Sierra Leone-based ECOMOG troops fighting in the Liberian war.

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**Who acts:** NPRC, based ECOMOG troops · **What happens:** maintain, strengthen, base, fight · **To what, where:** relations, support, Liberian war

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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, based ECOMOG troops), 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:269
# text = The NPRC maintained relations with ECOWAS and strengthened support for Sierra Leone-based ECOMOG troops fighting in the Liberian war.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	NPRC	NPRC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ECOWAS	ECOWAS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	strengthened	strengthen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	Leone	Leone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
15	ECOMOG	ecomog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	nmod	_	_
17	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Liberian	Liberian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maintain** | past | the NPRC | relations |  |  |  | with ECOWAS | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent relation=Theme |
| 2 | **strengthen** | past | the NPRC *not said here* | support |  |  |  | for Sierra  based ECOMOG troops | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent support=Patient |
| 3 | **base** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fight** | gerund | based ECOMOG troops *not said here* |  |  | the Liberian war |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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