Liberia, sentence 127
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 1927, the country's elections again showed the power of the True Whig Party, with electoral proceedings that have been called some of the most rigged ever; the winning candidate was declared to have received votes amounting to more than 15 times the number of eligible voters.
Who acts: elections, received votes, country · What happens: show, call, rig, declare, have, receive · To what, where: power, electoral proceedings, winning candidate, received votes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (elections, received votes, country), 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 1927 | case |
| 2 | 1927 | 1927 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 showed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1927 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 elections | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 country | case |
| 7 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 showed | nsubj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 showed | advmod |
| 9 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 power | det |
| 11 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Party | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Party | det |
| 14 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Party | amod |
| 15 | Whig | Whig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Party | compound |
| 16 | Party | Party | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 power | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 proceedings | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 proceedings | case |
| 19 | electoral | electoral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 proceedings | amod |
| 20 | proceedings | proceedings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 showed | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 called | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 called | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 called | aux:pass |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 proceedings | acl:relcl |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 called | obj |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 rigged | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rigged | det |
| 28 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 29 rigged | advmod |
| 29 | rigged | rig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 some | acl |
| 30 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 rigged | advmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 declared | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 candidate | det |
| 33 | winning | winning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 candidate | compound |
| 34 | candidate | candidate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 declared | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 declared | aux:pass |
| 36 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 showed | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 have | mark |
| 38 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 declared | xcomp |
| 39 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 votes | amod |
| 40 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 have | obj |
| 41 | amounting | amount | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 votes | acl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 times | case |
| 43 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 45 15 | advmod |
| 44 | than | than | ADP | _ | 43 more | fixed |
| 45 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 46 times | nummod |
| 46 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 amounting | obl |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 number | det |
| 48 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 times | appos |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 voters | case |
| 50 | eligible | eligible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 voters | amod |
| 51 | voters | voter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 number | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the country's elections | the power of the True Whig Party | again | with electoral proceedings; in 1927 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent power=Patient in 1927=Topic | ||
| 2 | call | present · perfect · passive | electoral proceedings | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme some=Result | |||||
| 3 | rig | participle | ever | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | declare speech: other | past · passive | the winning candidate | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | received votes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Patient | |||||
| 6 | receive | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | amount | gerund | received votes not said here | time | vn register-54.1-1 «NP V PP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | elect | the country | nom election «act transitive»: poss=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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