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title: In the west, Sierra Leone has 400 km of Atlantic coastline, giving i… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: In the west, Sierra Leone has 400 km of Atlantic coastline, giving it both bountiful marine resources and attractive tourist potential. Who acts: Sierra, both. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 329

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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 the west, Sierra Leone has 400 km of Atlantic coastline, giving it both bountiful marine resources and attractive tourist potential.

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**Who acts:** Sierra, both · **What happens:** have, give, resource · **To what, where:** 400 km, west, km

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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 (Sierra, both), 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:329
# text = In the west, Sierra Leone has 400 km of Atlantic coastline, giving it both bountiful marine resources and attractive tourist potential.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Leone	Leone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	coastline	coastline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
17	bountiful	bountiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	marine	marine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	attractive	attractive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	tourist	tourist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	potential	potential	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Sierra | 400 km of Atlantic coastline |  | the west |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent km=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | Sierra *not said here* | km |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **resource** |  | both |  |  |  |  | attractive tourist potential *conj* | tree rules |

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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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