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title: Thousands of former child soldiers have fallen into substance abuse. — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: Thousands of former child soldiers have fallen into substance abuse. Who acts: Thousands. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 642

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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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Thousands of former child soldiers have fallen into substance abuse.

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**Who acts:** Thousands · **What happens:** fall · **To what, where:** substance abuse

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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 (Thousands), 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:642
# text = Thousands of former child soldiers have fallen into substance abuse.
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	abuse	abuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present · perfect | Thousands of former child soldiers |  |  |  |  | into substance abuse *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into abuse=Result |

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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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