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title: Sierra Leone is a presidential republic, with a unicameral parliamen… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: Sierra Leone is a presidential republic, with a unicameral parliament and a directly elected president. Who acts: Sierra. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 7

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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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Sierra Leone is a presidential republic, with a unicameral parliament and a directly elected president.

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**Who acts:** Sierra · **What happens:** be, elect · **To what, where:** presidential republic

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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 (Sierra), 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:7
# text = Sierra Leone is a presidential republic, with a unicameral parliament and a directly elected president.
1	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Leone	Leone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	unicameral	unicameral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 | Sierra | a presidential republic |  |  |  | a unicameral parliament and a elected president *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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