Liberia, sentence 54

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.

They believed these uprisings would be motivated by a desire to achieve the freedoms experienced by formerly enslaved peoples, specifically freedom from violence and reunions with separated family.

Who acts: owners, desire · What happens: believe, motivate, achieve, experience, enslave, separate · To what, where: uprisings, freedoms · 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 (owners, desire), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 uprisings	det
4	uprisings	uprising	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 motivated	nsubj:pass
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 motivated	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 motivated	aux:pass
7	motivated	motivate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 believed	ccomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 desire	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 desire	det
10	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 motivated	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 achieve	mark
12	achieve	achieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 motivated	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 freedoms	det
14	freedoms	freedom	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 achieve	obj
15	experienced	experience	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 freedoms	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 peoples	case
17	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	18 enslaved	advmod
18	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 peoples	amod
19	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 experienced	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 freedom	punct
21	specifically	specifically	ADV	_	22 freedom	advmod
22	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 achieve	obl
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 violence	case
24	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 freedom	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 reunions	cc
26	reunions	reunion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 violence	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 family	case
28	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 family	amod
29	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 violence	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	believe	past	owners = owner			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	motivate	would · passive	a desire	this uprisings		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	achieve	to-infinitive	a desire not said here	the freedoms	freedom from violence with separated family and reunions obl	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Eventuality
4	experience	participle		the freedoms not said here	by enslaved peoples	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
5	enslave	participle			formerly property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	separate	participle				vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP 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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Liberia, sentence 54