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title: Liberia was the first African republic to gain independence and is A… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: Liberia was the first African republic to gain independence and is Africa's oldest continuously independent country. Who acts: Liberia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liberia, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«Liberia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Liberia was the first African republic to gain independence and is Africa's oldest continuously independent country.

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**Who acts:** Liberia · **What happens:** be, gain · **To what, where:** first African republic, independence, oldest independent country

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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Liberia:10
# text = Liberia was the first African republic to gain independence and is Africa's oldest continuously independent country.
1	Liberia	Liberia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
12	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
15	continuously	continuously	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Liberia | the first African republic |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gain** | to-infinitive |  | independence |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | Africa's oldest independent country |  |  |  | Africa *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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**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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