--- title: The dispute was settled in 1935, with Firestone advancing $650,000 t… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics description: The dispute was settled in 1935, with Firestone advancing $650,000 to Liberia and gaining exemption from the export tax and from personal income tax on its expatriate employees for the rest of the time it took to repay the loan. Who acts: it. 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The dispute was settled in 1935, with Firestone advancing $650,000 to Liberia and gaining exemption from the export tax and from personal income tax on its expatriate employees for the rest of the time it took to repay the loan. **Who acts:** it · **What happens:** settle, advance, gain, take, repay · **To what, where:** dispute, 1935, Liberia, exemption, export tax, time 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 (it), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Liberia:120 # text = The dispute was settled in 1935, with Firestone advancing $650,000 to Liberia and gaining exemption from the export tax and from personal income tax on its expatriate employees for the rest of the time it took to repay the loan. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dispute dispute NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1935 1935 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Firestone firestone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 10 advancing advance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 11 $ $ SYM $ _ 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 650,000 650,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Liberia Liberia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 gaining gain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 17 exemption exemption NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 export export NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 personal personal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 income income NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 expatriate expatriate NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 employees employee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 repay repay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 loan loan NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **settle** | past · passive | | the dispute | | 1935 | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in 1935=Location | | 2 | **advance** | gerund | | | Liberia | | | with Firestone | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent $=Theme to liberia=Goal | | 3 | **gain** | gerund | | exemption | | the export tax and personal income tax on dispute's expatriate employees for the rest of the time | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent exemption=Theme from tax=Source | | 4 | **take** | past | it | the time *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | | 5 | **repay** | to-infinitive | | the loan | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent loan=Recipient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Liberia/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Liberia/121/) - ↑ back to [Liberia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Liberia/)