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title: In total, there are 19 local councils: 13 district councils, one for… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: In total, there are 19 local councils: 13 district councils, one for each of the 12 districts and one for the Western Area Rural, and six municipalities also have elected local councils. Who acts: 19 local councils. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 404

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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 total, there are 19 local councils: 13 district councils, one for each of the 12 districts and one for the Western Area Rural, and six municipalities also have elected local councils.

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**Who acts:** 19 local councils · **What happens:** be, elect · **To what, where:** total, six municipalities

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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 (19 local councils), 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:404
# text = In total, there are 19 local councils: 13 district councils, one for each of the 12 districts and one for the Western Area Rural, and six municipalities also have elected local councils.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	district	district	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	Western	Western	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	Area	Area	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Rural	Rural	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	municipalities	municipality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	also	also	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
35	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | 19 local councils and 13 district councils |  |  | total; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in total=Location |
| 2 | **elect** | present · perfect · passive | 19 local councils and 13 district councils *not said here* | six municipalities |  |  |  | local councils *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme council=Attribute |

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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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