---
title: Rice is the most important staple crop in Sierra Leone, with 85 per… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: Rice is the most important staple crop in Sierra Leone, with 85 per cent of farmers cultivating it during the rainy season and an annual consumption of 76 kg (167.5 lbs) per person. Who acts: Rice, farmers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sierra_Leone/439/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Sierra Leone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sierra_Leone/) / 439

# Sierra Leone, sentence 439

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rice is the most important staple crop in Sierra Leone, with 85 per cent of farmers cultivating it during the rainy season and an annual consumption of 76 kg (167.5 lbs) per person.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Rice, farmers · **What happens:** be, cultivate, consume · **To what, where:** important staple crop, Sierra, cent, 76 kg

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Rice, farmers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:439
# text = Rice is the most important staple crop in Sierra Leone, with 85 per cent of farmers cultivating it during the rainy season and an annual consumption of 76 kg (167.5 lbs) per person.
1	Rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	staple	staple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Leone	Leone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	85	85	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	cultivating	cultivate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	during	during	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	consumption	consumption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	76	76	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	kg	kg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	167.5	167.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	lbs	lb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	per	per	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Rice | the important staple crop |  | Sierra |  | 85 per cent of farmers *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cultivate** | gerund | farmers *not said here* | cent |  |  | season |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 3 | **consume** |  |  | 76 kg |  |  |  |  | nom consumption «act transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 438](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sierra_Leone/438/)
- next →: [sentence 440](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sierra_Leone/440/)
- ↑ back to [Sierra Leone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sierra_Leone/)