Liberia, sentence 149
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.
Government repression intensified in response, as Doe's troops responded by executing members of the Gio and Mano ethnic groups in Nimba County.
Who acts: troops · What happens: intensify, respond, execute · To what, where: Government repression, members, Nimba County
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 (troops), 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 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 repression | compound |
| 2 | repression | repression | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | intensified | intensify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 repression | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 response | case |
| 5 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 intensified | obl:agent |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 responded | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 responded | mark |
| 8 | Doe | Doe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 troops | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Doe | case |
| 10 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 responded | nsubj |
| 11 | responded | respond | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 repression | acl |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 executing | mark |
| 13 | executing | execute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 responded | advcl |
| 14 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 executing | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 groups | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 groups | det |
| 17 | Gio | Gio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 groups | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Mano | cc |
| 19 | Mano | Mano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Gio | conj |
| 20 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 groups | amod |
| 21 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 members | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 County | case |
| 23 | Nimba | Nimba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 County | compound |
| 24 | County | County | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 executing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 repression | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intensify | participle | Government repression not said here | response obl:agent | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | respond speech: other | participle | Doe's troops | Government repression not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent repression=Topic | ||||
| 3 | execute | gerund | Doe's troops not said here | members of the ethnic groups Gio and Mano | Nimba County | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Patient |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Liberia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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