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title: Each has a directly elected local district council to exercise autho… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: Each has a directly elected local district council to exercise authority and carry out functions at a local level. Who acts: Each. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 403

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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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Each has a directly elected local district council to exercise authority and carry out functions at a local level.

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**Who acts:** Each · **What happens:** have, elect, exercise, carry out · **To what, where:** elected local district council, authority, functions, local level

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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 (Each), 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:403
# text = Each has a directly elected local district council to exercise authority and carry out functions at a local level.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
6	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	district	district	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	exercise	exercise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	functions	function	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Each | a elected local district council |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Patient |
| 2 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **exercise** | to-infinitive | Each *not said here* | authority |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Patient |
| 4 | **carry out** | infinitive | Each *not said here* | functions |  | a local level |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent function=Eventuality |

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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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