Liberia, sentence 124
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 response, the company attempted to redesign Liberia's economic and labor system through impressment, tax systems designed to pry labor out of the traditional economy by creating need for cash income, and forced labor.
Who acts: company, tax systems · What happens: attempt, redesign, design, pry, create, need · To what, where: forced labor, response, Liberia, tax systems, labor, traditional economy
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 (company, tax systems), 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 response | case |
| 2 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attempted | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 response | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 company | det |
| 5 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attempted | nsubj |
| 6 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 redesign | mark |
| 8 | redesign | redesign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 attempted | xcomp |
| 9 | Liberia | Liberia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 redesign | obj |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Liberia | case |
| 11 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 redesign | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 system | cc |
| 13 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 system | compound |
| 14 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 need | obl |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 impressment | case |
| 16 | impressment | impressment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 system | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 systems | punct |
| 18 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 systems | compound |
| 19 | systems | system | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 need | nsubj |
| 20 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 systems | acl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 pry | mark |
| 22 | pry | pry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 designed | advcl |
| 23 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pry | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 economy | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 economy | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 economy | det |
| 27 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 economy | amod |
| 28 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pry | obl |
| 29 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 30 creating | mark |
| 30 | creating | create | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 pry | advcl |
| 31 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 attempted | parataxis |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 income | case |
| 33 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 income | compound |
| 34 | income | income | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 need | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 labor | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 labor | cc |
| 37 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 labor | amod |
| 38 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attempted | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | past | the company | forced labor | response | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | redesign not said to happen | to-infinitive | the company not said here | Liberia | economic property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | design | participle | tax systems not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pry | to-infinitive | labor | the traditional economy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent labor=Theme out economy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | create | gerund | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | need | present | tax systems | labor system through impressment | for cash income | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 7 | force | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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