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title: In light of this, Liberia sought to relieve itself of its repayment… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: In light of this, Liberia sought to relieve itself of its repayment obligations to Firestone. Who acts: Liberia, light. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liberia, sentence 117

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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 light of this, Liberia sought to relieve itself of its repayment obligations to Firestone.

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**Who acts:** Liberia, light · **What happens:** seek, relieve, light, obligate · **To what, where:** light, this

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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, light), 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:117
# text = In light of this, Liberia sought to relieve itself of its repayment obligations to Firestone.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Liberia	Liberia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	relieve	relieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	repayment	repayment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	obligations	obligation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Firestone	firestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | Liberia |  |  | light of this |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **relieve** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Liberia *not said here* | light |  |  |  | of light's repayment obligations to Firestone | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer itself=Source of obligation=Theme |
| 3 | **light** |  |  | this |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **obligate** |  | light |  |  |  |  | to Firestone | nom obligation «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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