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title: A small number of Sierra Leoneans are of partial or full Lebanese an… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: A small number of Sierra Leoneans are of partial or full Lebanese ancestry, descendants of traders who first came to the territory in the 19th century. Who acts: small number, traders. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 596

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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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A small number of Sierra Leoneans are of partial or full Lebanese ancestry, descendants of traders who first came to the territory in the 19th century.

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**Who acts:** small number, traders · **What happens:** be, come · **To what, where:** territory

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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 (small number, traders), 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:596
# text = A small number of Sierra Leoneans are of partial or full Lebanese ancestry, descendants of traders who first came to the territory in the 19th century.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Leoneans	Leonean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	partial	partial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	Lebanese	Lebanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ancestry	ancestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	advmod	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a small number of Sierra Leoneans |  |  |  |  | of partial Lebanese ancestry and descendants of traders; descendants of traders *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | traders |  |  | the territory | century | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to territory=Initial\_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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