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title: Government repression intensified in response, as Doe's troops respo… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: Government repression intensified in response, as Doe's troops responded by executing members of the Gio and Mano ethnic groups in Nimba County. Who acts: troops. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liberia, sentence 149

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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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Government repression intensified in response, as Doe's troops responded by executing members of the Gio and Mano ethnic groups in Nimba County.

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**Who acts:** troops · **What happens:** intensify, respond, execute · **To what, where:** Government repression, members, Nimba County

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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 (troops), 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:149
# text = Government repression intensified in response, as Doe's troops responded by executing members of the Gio and Mano ethnic groups in Nimba County.
1	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	repression	repression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	intensified	intensify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	Doe	Doe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	nsubj	_	_
11	responded	respond	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	executing	execute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	Gio	Gio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Mano	Mano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Nimba	Nimba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	County	County	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intensify** | participle |  | Government repression *not said here* |  |  |  | response *obl:agent* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **respond** *speech: other* | participle | Doe's troops | Government repression *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent repression=Topic |
| 3 | **execute** | gerund | Doe's troops *not said here* | members of the ethnic groups  Gio and Mano |  | Nimba County |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Patient |

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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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