Liberia, sentence 6

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.

Liberia began in the early 19th century as a project of the American Colonization Society (ACS), which fomented the emigration of Black Americans from the United States to Africa.

Who acts: Liberia, American Colonization Society, Black Americans · What happens: begin, foment, project, emigrate · To what, where: emigration, Africa, United States, American Colonization Society

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 (Liberia, American Colonization Society, Black Americans), 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	Liberia	Liberia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 century	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 century	det
5	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 century	amod
6	19th	19th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	7 century	amod
7	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 project	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 project	det
10	project	project	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 Society	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Society	det
13	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Society	amod
14	Colonization	Colonization	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Society	compound
15	Society	Society	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 project	nmod
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 ACS	punct
17	ACS	ac	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Society	appos
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 ACS	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fomented	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 fomented	nsubj
21	fomented	foment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Society	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 emigration	det
23	emigration	emigration	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fomented	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Americans	case
25	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Americans	amod
26	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 emigration	nmod
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 States	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 States	det
29	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 States	amod
30	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 fomented	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 Africa	case
32	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 fomented	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Liberia				century	as a project of the American Colonization Society	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	foment	past	the American Colonization Society	the emigration of Black Americans	Africa	the United States			tree rules
3	project			the American Colonization Society					nom project «act transitive»: of=patient
4	emigrate		Black Americans						nom emigration «act 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.

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 6