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title: These Liberated Africans or recaptives were sold for $20 a head as a… — Sierra Leone · tree and pragmatics
description: These Liberated Africans or recaptives were sold for $20 a head as apprentices to the white settlers, Nova Scotian Settlers, and the Jamaican Maroons. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sierra Leone» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sierra Leone, sentence 92

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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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These Liberated Africans or recaptives were sold for $20 a head as apprentices to the white settlers, Nova Scotian Settlers, and the Jamaican Maroons.

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**What happens:** liberate, sell · **To what, where:** Liberated Africans, white settlers

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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: 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:92
# text = These Liberated Africans or recaptives were sold for $20 a head as apprentices to the white settlers, Nova Scotian Settlers, and the Jamaican Maroons.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	Liberated	liberate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	Africans	African	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	recaptives	recaptive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	$	$	SYM	$	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	apprentices	apprentice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Nova	Nova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	Scotian	Scotian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Settlers	Settler	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Jamaican	Jamaican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Maroons	maroon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **liberate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sell** | past · passive |  | this Liberated Africans | the white settlers |  |  | as apprentices; recaptives *nsubj:pass*; the Jamaican Maroons *conj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme for $=Asset to settler=Recipient |

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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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