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title: Shia Islam does not have a strong presence in Sierra Leone, and ther… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: Shia Islam does not have a strong presence in Sierra Leone, and there are virtually no Shia Muslims in the country. Who acts: Shia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 523

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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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Shia Islam does not have a strong presence in Sierra Leone, and there are virtually no Shia Muslims in the country.

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**Who acts:** Shia · **What happens:** not have, be · **To what, where:** strong presence, Sierra

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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 (Shia), 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:523
# text = Shia Islam does not have a strong presence in Sierra Leone, and there are virtually no Shia Muslims in the country.
1	Shia	Shia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	Leone	Leone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	virtually	virtually	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	Shia	Shia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	parataxis	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | Shia | a strong presence |  | Sierra |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Patient |
| 2 | **be** | present |  |  |  | there |  | no Shia Muslims in the country *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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