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title: Also in 2004, a UN-backed war crimes court began holding trials of s… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: Also in 2004, a UN-backed war crimes court began holding trials of senior leaders from both sides of the war. Who acts: crimes court. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 314

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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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Also in 2004, a UN-backed war crimes court began holding trials of senior leaders from both sides of the war.

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**Who acts:** crimes court · **What happens:** begin, hold, try · **To what, where:** trials, sides, senior leaders

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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 (crimes court), 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:314
# text = Also in 2004, a UN-backed war crimes court began holding trials of senior leaders from both sides of the war.
1	Also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	UN-backed	un-backed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	crimes	crime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	compound	_	_
9	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	trials	trial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	senior	senior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | a crimes court |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | a crimes court *not said here* | trials of senior leaders |  | both sides of the war |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trial=Theme |
| 3 | **try** |  |  | senior leaders |  |  |  |  | nom trial «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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