Liberia, sentence 231
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.
Of households where bushmeat was served, 80% of residents said they cooked it "once in a while," while 13% cooked it once a week and 7% cooked bushmeat daily.
Who acts: residents · What happens: serve, say, cook · To what, where: bushmeat · 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 (residents), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 households | case |
| 2 | households | household | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obl |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 served | advmod |
| 4 | bushmeat | bushmeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 served | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 served | aux:pass |
| 6 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 households | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 households | punct |
| 8 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 % | nummod |
| 9 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 residents | case |
| 11 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 % | nmod |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cooked | nsubj |
| 14 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cooked | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 cooked | punct |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 cooked | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 while | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 while | det |
| 20 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cooked | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 cooked | mark |
| 24 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 % | nummod |
| 25 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 26 cooked | nsubj |
| 26 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cooked | obj |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 cooked | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 week | det |
| 30 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 once | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 bushmeat | cc |
| 32 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 % | nummod |
| 33 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 35 bushmeat | compound |
| 34 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 bushmeat | amod |
| 35 | bushmeat | bushmeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cooked | conj |
| 36 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 26 cooked | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past · passive | bushmeat | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | of households | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cook | past | residents = resident | bushmeat | while | once property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||
| 4 | cook | past | bushmeat | % cooked bushmeat conj; daily, once property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | cook | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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