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title: While the broader community included some women, the Black Poor seem… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: While the broader community included some women, the Black Poor seems to have exclusively consisted of men, some of whom developed relationships with local women and often married them. Who acts: broader community, Black Poor, some. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree a
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 51

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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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While the broader community included some women, the Black Poor seems to have exclusively consisted of men, some of whom developed relationships with local women and often married them.

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**Who acts:** broader community, Black Poor, some · **What happens:** include, seem, have, consist, develop, marry · **To what, where:** women, relationships

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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 (broader community, Black Poor, some), 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:51
# text = While the broader community included some women, the Black Poor seems to have exclusively consisted of men, some of whom developed relationships with local women and often married them.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	broader	broad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	included	include	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Poor	poor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	consisted	consist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nmod	_	_
23	developed	develop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
24	relationships	relationship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	often	often	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | past | the broader community | some women |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | present | the Black Poor |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | the Black Poor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **consist** | participle | the Black Poor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of men; exclusively *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **develop** | past | some | relationships |  |  |  | with local women | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Product |
| 6 | **marry** | past | some *not said here* | relationships *= relationship* |  |  |  | often *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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