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title: The Kuranko are primarily farmers; leaders among them have tradition… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: The Kuranko are primarily farmers; leaders among them have traditionally held several senior positions in the military. Who acts: Kuranko. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 579

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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 Kuranko are primarily farmers; leaders among them have traditionally held several senior positions in the military.

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**Who acts:** Kuranko · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** farmers, several senior positions, military

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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 (Kuranko), 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:579
# text = The Kuranko are primarily farmers; leaders among them have traditionally held several senior positions in the military.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Kuranko	Kuranko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	senior	senior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	positions	position	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Kuranko | farmers and leaders among farmers |  |  |  | leaders among farmers *conj*; primarily *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | present · perfect |  | several senior positions |  | the military |  | traditionally *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent position=Theme in military=Location |

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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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