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title: Liberian rubber production became a major economic driver in the ear… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: Liberian rubber production became a major economic driver in the early 20th century with Firestone Tire and Rubber Company's investment in the Country in the early 1920s. Who acts: Liberian rubber production, major economic driver. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Liberia, sentence 220

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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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Liberian rubber production became a major economic driver in the early 20th century with Firestone Tire and Rubber Company's investment in the Country in the early 1920s.

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**Who acts:** Liberian rubber production, major economic driver · **What happens:** become, invest · **To what, where:** investment, Country

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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 (Liberian rubber production, major economic driver), 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:220
# text = Liberian rubber production became a major economic driver in the early 20th century with Firestone Tire and Rubber Company's investment in the Country in the early 1920s.
1	Liberian	liberian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Firestone	Firestone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Tire	Tire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Rubber	Rubber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	1920s	1920s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Liberian rubber production | a major economic driver in the early 20th century with Firestone Tire and Rubber Company's investment in the Country in the early 1920s |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **invest** |  | a major economic driver in the early 20th century with Firestone Tire and Rubber Company |  |  | the Country in the early 1920s |  |  | nom investment «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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