Liberia, sentence 10
From Wikipedia, «Liberia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Liberia was the first African republic to gain independence and is Africa's oldest continuously independent country.
Who acts: Liberia · What happens: be, gain · To what, where: first African republic, independence, oldest independent country
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Liberia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Liberia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liberia | Liberia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 republic | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 republic | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 republic | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 republic | amod |
| 5 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 republic | amod |
| 6 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 gain | mark |
| 8 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 republic | acl |
| 9 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gain | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 country | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 country | cop |
| 12 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 country | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Africa | case |
| 14 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 country | amod |
| 15 | continuously | continuously | ADV | _ | 16 independent | advmod |
| 16 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 country | amod |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gain | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 republic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Liberia | the first African republic | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gain | to-infinitive | independence | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Africa's oldest independent country | Africa nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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