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title: Radio is the most popular and most-trusted media in Sierra Leone, wi… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: Radio is the most popular and most-trusted media in Sierra Leone, with 85% of people having access to a radio and 72% of people in the country listening to the radio daily. Who acts: Radio, people, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 679

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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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Radio is the most popular and most-trusted media in Sierra Leone, with 85% of people having access to a radio and 72% of people in the country listening to the radio daily.

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**Who acts:** Radio, people, country · **What happens:** be, trust, have, listen · **To what, where:** access

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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 (Radio, people, country), 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:679
# text = Radio is the most popular and most-trusted media in Sierra Leone, with 85% of people having access to a radio and 72% of people in the country listening to the radio daily.
1	Radio	Radio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	Leone	Leone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	85	85	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	72	72	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Radio |  |  |  |  | trusted media in Sierra *conj*; popular *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | people *not said here* | access |  |  |  | to a radio | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent access=Patient |
| 4 | **listen** | gerund | the country *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the radio; daily *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to radio=Theme |

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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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