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title: In his first public broadcast to the nation after the 1996 coup, Bri… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: In his first public broadcast to the nation after the 1996 coup, Brigadier Bio said that returning Sierra Leone to a democratically elected civilian government and ending the civil war were his motivations for the coup. Who acts: Brigadier, ending, Strasser. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» 
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 284

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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 his first public broadcast to the nation after the 1996 coup, Brigadier Bio said that returning Sierra Leone to a democratically elected civilian government and ending the civil war were his motivations for the coup.

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**Who acts:** Brigadier, ending, Strasser · **What happens:** say, return, elect, end, be, broadcast · **To what, where:** first public broadcast, Sierra Leone, elected civilian government, civil war, motivations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Brigadier, ending, Strasser), 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:284
# text = In his first public broadcast to the nation after the 1996 coup, Brigadier Bio said that returning Sierra Leone to a democratically elected civilian government and ending the civil war were his motivations for the coup.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	broadcast	broadcast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	1996	1996	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	Brigadier	Brigadier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	Bio	Bio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Leone	leone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	democratically	democratically	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
25	civilian	civilian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	csubj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	motivations	motivation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Brigadier |  |  | Strasser's first public broadcast to the nation after the 1996 coup |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in broadcast=Manner |
| 2 | **return** | gerund | Brigadier *not said here* | Sierra Leone |  | a elected civilian government |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leone=Theme to government=Destination |
| 3 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | democratically *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **end** | gerund |  | the civil war |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is a** | past | ending | Strasser's motivations |  |  |  | for the coup; Strasser *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 6 | **broadcast** |  | Strasser |  |  |  |  | to the nation after the 1996 coup | nom broadcast «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=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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