Liberia, sentence 120
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.
The dispute was settled in 1935, with Firestone advancing $650,000 to Liberia and gaining exemption from the export tax and from personal income tax on its expatriate employees for the rest of the time it took to repay the loan.
Who acts: it · What happens: settle, advance, gain, take, repay · To what, where: dispute, 1935, Liberia, exemption, export tax, time
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 (it), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dispute | det |
| 2 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 settled | aux:pass |
| 4 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1935 | case |
| 6 | 1935 | 1935 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 settled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 advancing | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Firestone | case |
| 9 | Firestone | firestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 advancing | obl |
| 10 | advancing | advance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 settled | advcl |
| 11 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 10 advancing | obj |
| 12 | 650,000 | 650,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 $ | nummod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Liberia | case |
| 14 | Liberia | Liberia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 advancing | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gaining | cc |
| 16 | gaining | gain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 advancing | conj |
| 17 | exemption | exemption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gaining | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 tax | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tax | det |
| 20 | export | export | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tax | compound |
| 21 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gaining | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tax | cc |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 tax | case |
| 24 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tax | amod |
| 25 | income | income | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tax | compound |
| 26 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tax | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 employees | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 employees | nmod:poss |
| 29 | expatriate | expatriate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 employees | compound |
| 30 | employees | employee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 tax | nmod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 rest | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 rest | det |
| 33 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 employees | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 time | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 time | det |
| 36 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rest | nmod |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 took | nsubj |
| 38 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 time | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 repay | mark |
| 40 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 took | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 loan | det |
| 42 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 repay | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past · passive | the dispute | 1935 | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in 1935=Location | ||||
| 2 | advance | gerund | Liberia | with Firestone | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent $=Theme to liberia=Goal | ||||
| 3 | gain | gerund | exemption | the export tax and personal income tax on dispute's expatriate employees for the rest of the time | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent exemption=Theme from tax=Source | ||||
| 4 | take | past | it | the time not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | ||||
| 5 | repay | to-infinitive | the loan | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent loan=Recipient |
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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