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title: The Creoles or Krio have traditionally dominated Sierra Leone's judi… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: The Creoles or Krio have traditionally dominated Sierra Leone's judiciary and Freetown's elected city council. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 570

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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 Creoles or Krio have traditionally dominated Sierra Leone's judiciary and Freetown's elected city council.

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**What happens:** dominate, elect · **To what, where:** Creoles

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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:570
# text = The Creoles or Krio have traditionally dominated Sierra Leone's judiciary and Freetown's elected city council.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Creoles	creole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Krio	Krio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	dominated	dominate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Leone	Leone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
11	judiciary	judiciary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	Freetown	Freetown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dominate** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Creoles or Krio |  |  |  | Sierra's judiciary and Freetown's elected city council *obj*; traditionally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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