Liberia, sentence 82

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 United States did not recognize Liberia until 1862, after the Southern states, which had strong political power in the American government, declared their secession and the formation of the Confederacy.

Who acts: United States, Southern states · What happens: not recognize, have, declare · To what, where: Liberia, strong political power, American government, secession

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 (United States, Southern states), 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	3 States	det
2	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 States	amod
3	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 recognize	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 recognize	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 recognize	advmod
6	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Liberia	Liberia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 recognize	obj
8	until	until	ADP	_	9 1862	case
9	1862	1862	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 recognize	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 states	punct
11	after	after	ADP	_	14 states	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 states	det
13	Southern	Southern	PROPN	_	14 states	compound
14	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 recognize	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 states	parataxis
18	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 power	amod
19	political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 power	amod
20	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 government	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 government	det
23	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 government	amod
24	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 declared	punct
26	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 had	conj
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 secession	nmod:poss
28	secession	secession	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 declared	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 formation	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 formation	det
31	formation	formation	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 secession	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 Confederacy	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Confederacy	det
34	Confederacy	confederacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 formation	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 recognize	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not recognize	past · do-support	the United States	Liberia		until 1862	the Southern states conj	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer liberia=Stimulus
2	have	past	the Southern states	strong political power	the American government			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
3	declare speech: other	past	the Southern states not said here	States's secession and the formation of the Confederacy				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secession=Attribute

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 82