Liberia, sentence 179
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 landscape is characterized by mostly flat to rolling coastal plains that contain mangroves and swamps, which rise to a rolling plateau and low mountains in the northeast.
Who acts: coastal plains, swamps · What happens: characterize, roll, contain, rise · To what, where: landscape, coastal plains, mangroves, northeast
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 (coastal plains, swamps), 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 landscape | det |
| 2 | landscape | landscape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 characterized | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 characterized | aux:pass |
| 4 | characterized | characterize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 flat | case |
| 6 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 7 flat | advmod |
| 7 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 characterized | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 9 rolling | mark |
| 9 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 flat | advcl |
| 10 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 plains | amod |
| 11 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rolling | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 contain | nsubj |
| 13 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 plains | acl:relcl |
| 14 | mangroves | mangrove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 contain | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swamps | cc |
| 16 | swamps | swamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mangroves | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rise | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 rise | nsubj |
| 19 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 swamps | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 plateau | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 plateau | det |
| 22 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 plateau | amod |
| 23 | plateau | plateau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rise | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 mountains | cc |
| 25 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mountains | amod |
| 26 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 plateau | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 northeast | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 northeast | det |
| 29 | northeast | northeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rise | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 characterized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | characterize | present · passive | the landscape | flat property | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roll | gerund | coastal plains | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=Agent | |||||
| 3 | contain | present | coastal plains | mangroves and swamps | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mangrove=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rise | present | swamps | the northeast | to a rolling plateau and low mountains | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in northeast=Location | |||
| 5 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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