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title: Surveys of the religious makeup of Sierra Leone vary widely, though… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: Surveys of the religious makeup of Sierra Leone vary widely, though Muslims are the majority. Who acts: Surveys, Muslims. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 510

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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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Surveys of the religious makeup of Sierra Leone vary widely, though Muslims are the majority.

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**Who acts:** Surveys, Muslims · **What happens:** vary, be, survey · **To what, where:** majority, religious makeup

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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 (Surveys, Muslims), 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:510
# text = Surveys of the religious makeup of Sierra Leone vary widely, though Muslims are the majority.
1	Surveys	survey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	makeup	makeup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Leone	Leone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	vary	vary	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vary** | present | Surveys of the religious makeup of Sierra |  |  |  |  | widely *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Muslims | the majority |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **survey** |  |  | the religious makeup of Sierra |  |  |  |  | nom survey «act 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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