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title: The Sierra Leone Company, controlled by London investors, refused to… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sierra Leone Company, controlled by London investors, refused to allow the settlers to take freehold of the land. Who acts: Sierra Leone Company, settlers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 83

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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 Sierra Leone Company, controlled by London investors, refused to allow the settlers to take freehold of the land.

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**Who acts:** Sierra Leone Company, settlers · **What happens:** control, refuse, not allow, take · **To what, where:** Sierra Leone Company, settlers, freehold

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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 Leone Company, settlers), 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:83
# text = The Sierra Leone Company, controlled by London investors, refused to allow the settlers to take freehold of the land.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Leone	Leone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	controlled	control	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	investors	investor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	freehold	freehold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **control** | participle |  | the Sierra Leone Company *not said here* |  |  |  | by London investors | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | the Sierra Leone Company |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **allow** | to-infinitive | the Sierra Leone Company *not said here* | the settlers |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer settler=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the settlers *not said here* | freehold of the land |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freehold=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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