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title: The Sherbro are virtually all Christians, and their paramount chiefs… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sherbro are virtually all Christians, and their paramount chiefs had a history of intermarriage with British colonists and traders. Who acts: Sherbro, paramount chiefs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 595

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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 Sherbro are virtually all Christians, and their paramount chiefs had a history of intermarriage with British colonists and traders.

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**Who acts:** Sherbro, paramount chiefs · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** Christians, history

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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 (Sherbro, paramount chiefs), 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:595
# text = The Sherbro are virtually all Christians, and their paramount chiefs had a history of intermarriage with British colonists and traders.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sherbro	sherbro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	virtually	virtually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	paramount	paramount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	intermarriage	intermarriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	colonists	colonist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 Sherbro | all Christians |  |  |  | virtually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Christians's paramount chiefs | a history of intermarriage with British colonists and traders |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=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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