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title: In response, the company attempted to redesign Liberia's economic an… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
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# Liberia, sentence 124

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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 response, the company attempted to redesign Liberia's economic and labor system through impressment, tax systems designed to pry labor out of the traditional economy by creating need for cash income, and forced labor.

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**Who acts:** company, tax systems · **What happens:** attempt, redesign, design, pry, create, need · **To what, where:** forced labor, response, Liberia, tax systems, labor, traditional economy

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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 (company, tax systems), 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:124
# text = In response, the company attempted to redesign Liberia's economic and labor system through impressment, tax systems designed to pry labor out of the traditional economy by creating need for cash income, and forced labor.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	redesign	redesign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	Liberia	Liberia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	impressment	impressment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	systems	system	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
20	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	pry	pry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	creating	create	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
31	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
38	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | past | the company | forced labor |  | response |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **redesign** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the company *not said here* | Liberia |  |  |  | economic *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **design** | participle |  | tax systems *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pry** | to-infinitive |  | labor |  | the traditional economy |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent labor=Theme out economy=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **create** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **need** | present | tax systems | labor system through impressment |  |  |  | for cash income | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **force** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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