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title: Much of the recovery depends on the success of the government's effo… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: Much of the recovery depends on the success of the government's efforts to limit corruption by officials, which many feel was the chief cause of the civil war. Who acts: Much, many. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 426

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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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Much of the recovery depends on the success of the government's efforts to limit corruption by officials, which many feel was the chief cause of the civil war.

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**Who acts:** Much, many · **What happens:** depend, limit, feel, be · **To what, where:** corruption, officials, chief cause

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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 (Much, many), 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:426
# text = Much of the recovery depends on the success of the government's efforts to limit corruption by officials, which many feel was the chief cause of the civil war.
1	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	recovery	recovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	limit	limit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
16	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj	_	_
22	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depend** | present | Much of the recovery |  |  |  |  | on the success of the government's efforts | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on success=Theme |
| 2 | **limit** | to-infinitive | Much of the recovery *not said here* | corruption |  |  |  | by officials | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer corruption=Patient |
| 3 | **feel** | present | many | officials |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the chief cause |  |  |  | of the civil war | 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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