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title: The Ebola epidemic in 2014 posed a significant health crisis, leadin… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ebola epidemic in 2014 posed a significant health crisis, leading to a national state of emergency. Who acts: Ebola epidemic. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 317

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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 Ebola epidemic in 2014 posed a significant health crisis, leading to a national state of emergency.

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**Who acts:** Ebola epidemic · **What happens:** pose, lead · **To what, where:** significant health crisis

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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 (Ebola epidemic), 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:317
# text = The Ebola epidemic in 2014 posed a significant health crisis, leading to a national state of emergency.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ebola	Ebola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	epidemic	epidemic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	posed	pose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pose** | past | the Ebola epidemic in 2014 | a significant health crisis |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisis=Attribute |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund | the Ebola epidemic in 2014 *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a national state of emergency | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to state=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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