Liberia, sentence 273
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.
All existing local governments—cities, townships, and a borough—were created by specific acts of the Liberian government, and thus the structure and duties/responsibilities of each local government vary greatly from one to the other.
Who acts: specific acts, structure, Liberian government · What happens: exist, create, vary, act · To what, where: existing local governments
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 (specific acts, structure, Liberian government), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 governments | det |
| 2 | existing | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 governments | amod |
| 3 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 governments | amod |
| 4 | governments | government | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 created | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 cities | punct |
| 6 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 governments | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 townships | punct |
| 8 | townships | township | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cities | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 borough | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 borough | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 borough | det |
| 12 | borough | borough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cities | conj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 governments | punct |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 created | aux:pass |
| 15 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 acts | case |
| 17 | specific | specific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 acts | amod |
| 18 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 created | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 government | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 government | det |
| 21 | Liberian | liberian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 government | amod |
| 22 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 acts | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 vary | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 vary | cc |
| 25 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 34 vary | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 structure | det |
| 27 | structure | structure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 vary | nsubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 duties/responsibilities | cc |
| 29 | duties/responsibilities | duties/responsibility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 structure | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 government | case |
| 31 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 government | det |
| 32 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 government | amod |
| 33 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 duties/responsibilities | nmod |
| 34 | vary | vary | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 created | parataxis |
| 35 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 34 vary | advmod |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 one | case |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 vary | obl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 other | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 other | det |
| 40 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 one | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 created | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | create | past · passive | specific acts of the Liberian government | all existing local governments | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result | ||||
| 3 | vary | infinitive | the structure and duties/responsibilities of each local government | from one to the other; greatly, thus property | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from one=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | act | the Liberian government | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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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