Liberia, sentence 101
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.
In 1917, Liberia declared war on Germany following the U.S. in the hopes of receiving financial aid from the Allied Powers, specifically the United States.
Who acts: Liberia, hopes · What happens: declare, follow, receive, ally · To what, where: war, 1917, U.S., hopes, financial aid, Allied Powers
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, hopes), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1917 | case |
| 2 | 1917 | 1917 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 declared | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1917 | punct |
| 4 | Liberia | Liberia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 declared | nsubj |
| 5 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 declared | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Germany | case |
| 8 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 declared | obl |
| 9 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 declared | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 U.S. | det |
| 11 | U.S. | U.S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 following | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hopes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hopes | det |
| 14 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 following | obl |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 receiving | mark |
| 16 | receiving | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 hopes | acl |
| 17 | financial | financial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 aid | amod |
| 18 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 receiving | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Powers | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Powers | det |
| 21 | Allied | ally | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Powers | amod |
| 22 | Powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 aid | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 States | punct |
| 24 | specifically | specifically | ADV | _ | 27 States | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 States | det |
| 26 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 States | amod |
| 27 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 Powers | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | Liberia | war | 1917 | on Germany | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute | ||
| 2 | follow | gerund | Liberia not said here | the U.S. | the hopes | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent u.s.=Theme in hope=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | receive | gerund | the hopes not said here | financial aid | the Allied Powers and the United States | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent aid=Theme from power=Source | |||
| 4 | ally | participle | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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