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title: According to the World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the US Comm… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Sierra Leone had a population of 8,700 refugees and asylum seekers at the end of 2007. Who acts: Sierra. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 498

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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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According to the World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Sierra Leone had a population of 8,700 refugees and asylum seekers at the end of 2007.

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**Who acts:** Sierra · **What happens:** accord, publish, have · **To what, where:** World Refugee, population, end

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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), 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:498
# text = According to the World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Sierra Leone had a population of 8,700 refugees and asylum seekers at the end of 2007.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Refugee	Refugee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
6	Survey	Survey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Committee	committee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Immigrants	Immigrant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
19	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	Leone	Leone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	8,700	8,700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	asylum	asylum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	seekers	seeker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **publish** | participle |  | the World Refugee *not said here* |  |  |  | the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants *obl:agent* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | Sierra | a population of 8,700 refugees and asylum seekers |  |  | at the end of 2007 | accord the World Refugee | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient |

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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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