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title: The government is constitutionally forbidden to establish a state re… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: The government is constitutionally forbidden to establish a state religion, though Muslim and Christian prayers are usually held at the beginning of major political occasions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 509

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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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The government is constitutionally forbidden to establish a state religion, though Muslim and Christian prayers are usually held at the beginning of major political occasions.

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**What happens:** forbid, establish, hold, begin · **To what, where:** government, state religion, Muslim prayers, beginning, major political occasions

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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: 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:509
# text = The government is constitutionally forbidden to establish a state religion, though Muslim and Christian prayers are usually held at the beginning of major political occasions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	constitutionally	constitutionally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbid** | present · passive |  | the government |  |  |  | constitutionally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **establish** | to-infinitive |  | a state religion |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Patient |
| 3 | **hold** | present · passive |  | Muslim prayers |  |  | at the beginning of major political occasions | usually *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at beginning=Location |
| 4 | **begin** |  |  | major political occasions |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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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