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title: The service began broadcasting television in 1963, with coverage ext… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: The service began broadcasting television in 1963, with coverage extended to all the districts in the country in 1978. Who acts: service. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 668

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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 service began broadcasting television in 1963, with coverage extended to all the districts in the country in 1978.

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**Who acts:** service · **What happens:** begin, broadcast, extend · **To what, where:** broadcasting television, 1963, coverage, country

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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 (service), 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:668
# text = The service began broadcasting television in 1963, with coverage extended to all the districts in the country in 1978.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	broadcasting	broadcast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1963	1963	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	coverage	coverage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
11	extended	extend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1978	1978	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the service | broadcasting television |  | 1963 |  | coverage *parataxis* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent television=Eventuality |
| 2 | **broadcast** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **extend** | participle |  | coverage *not said here* |  | the country |  | to all districts; in 1978 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=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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