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title: The landscape is characterized by mostly flat to rolling coastal pla… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: The landscape is characterized by mostly flat to rolling coastal plains that contain mangroves and swamps, which rise to a rolling plateau and low mountains in the northeast. Who acts: coastal plains, swamps. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liberia, sentence 179

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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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The landscape is characterized by mostly flat to rolling coastal plains that contain mangroves and swamps, which rise to a rolling plateau and low mountains in the northeast.

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**Who acts:** coastal plains, swamps · **What happens:** characterize, roll, contain, rise · **To what, where:** landscape, coastal plains, mangroves, northeast

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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 (coastal plains, swamps), 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:179
# text = The landscape is characterized by mostly flat to rolling coastal plains that contain mangroves and swamps, which rise to a rolling plateau and low mountains in the northeast.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	characterized	characterize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	mangroves	mangrove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	swamps	swamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	plateau	plateau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **characterize** | present · passive |  | the landscape |  |  |  | flat *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **roll** | gerund |  | coastal plains |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=Agent |
| 3 | **contain** | present | coastal plains | mangroves and swamps |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mangrove=Theme |
| 4 | **rise** | present | swamps |  |  | the northeast |  | to a rolling plateau and low mountains | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in northeast=Location |
| 5 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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