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title: In 1917, Liberia declared war on Germany following the U.S. in the h… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1917, Liberia declared war on Germany following the U.S. in the hopes of receiving financial aid from the Allied Powers, specifically the United States. Who acts: Liberia, hopes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liberia, sentence 101

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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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In 1917, Liberia declared war on Germany following the U.S. in the hopes of receiving financial aid from the Allied Powers, specifically the United States.

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**Who acts:** Liberia, hopes · **What happens:** declare, follow, receive, ally · **To what, where:** war, 1917, U.S., hopes, financial aid, Allied Powers

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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, hopes), 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:101
# text = In 1917, Liberia declared war on Germany following the U.S. in the hopes of receiving financial aid from the Allied Powers, specifically the United States.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Liberia	Liberia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	financial	financial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Allied	ally	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	Powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	specifically	specifically	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Liberia | war |  | 1917 |  | on Germany | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | Liberia *not said here* | the U.S. |  | the hopes |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent u.s.=Theme in hope=Trajectory |
| 3 | **receive** | gerund | the hopes *not said here* | financial aid |  | the Allied Powers and the United States |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent aid=Theme from power=Source |
| 4 | **ally** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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