Liberia, sentence 270
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 Constitution calls for the election of various chiefs at the county and local level, but these elections have not taken place since 1985 due to war and financial constraints.
Who acts: Constitution · What happens: call, not take, elect · To what, where: elections, various chiefs · 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 (Constitution), 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 Constitution | det |
| 2 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | nsubj |
| 3 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 election | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 election | det |
| 6 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 chiefs | case |
| 8 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chiefs | amod |
| 9 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 election | nmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 county | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 county | det |
| 12 | county | county | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 level | cc |
| 14 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 level | amod |
| 15 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 county | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 taken | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 taken | cc |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 elections | det |
| 19 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 taken | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 taken | advmod |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 calls | conj |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | obj |
| 24 | since | since | ADP | _ | 25 1985 | case |
| 25 | 1985 | 1985 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 taken | obl |
| 26 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 28 war | case |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 due | fixed |
| 28 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 constraints | cc |
| 30 | financial | financial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 constraints | amod |
| 31 | constraints | constraint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 war | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | the Constitution | for the election of various chiefs; at the county and local level | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at county=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not take | present · perfect · passive | this elections | since 1985 | due war and financial constraints; place obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination | |||
| 3 | elect | various chiefs | nom election «act transitive»: of=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.
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