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title: Forests on the coastline are composed mostly of salt-tolerant mangro… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: Forests on the coastline are composed mostly of salt-tolerant mangrove trees, while the more sparsely populated inland has forests opening onto a plateau of drier grasslands. Who acts: forests. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liberia, sentence 216

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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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Forests on the coastline are composed mostly of salt-tolerant mangrove trees, while the more sparsely populated inland has forests opening onto a plateau of drier grasslands.

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**Who acts:** forests · **What happens:** compose, populate, have, open · **To what, where:** Forests, plateau

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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 (forests), 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:216
# text = Forests on the coastline are composed mostly of salt-tolerant mangrove trees, while the more sparsely populated inland has forests opening onto a plateau of drier grasslands.
1	Forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	coastline	coastline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tolerant	tolerant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	mangrove	mangrove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
18	sparsely	sparsely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	populated	populate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
20	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	plateau	plateau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	drier	dry	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	grasslands	grassland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compose** | present · passive |  | Forests on the coastline |  |  |  | of tolerant mangrove trees | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **populate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | sparsely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | forests |  |  |  | inland *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Patient |
| 4 | **open** | gerund | forests *not said here* |  |  | a plateau of drier grasslands |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent onto plateau=Recipient |

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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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