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title: Of households where bushmeat was served, 80% of residents said they… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: Of households where bushmeat was served, 80% of residents said they cooked it "once in a while," while 13% cooked it once a week and 7% cooked bushmeat daily. Who acts: residents. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liberia, sentence 231

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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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Of households where bushmeat was served, 80% of residents said they cooked it "once in a while," while 13% cooked it once a week and 7% cooked bushmeat daily.

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**Who acts:** residents · **What happens:** serve, say, cook · **To what, where:** bushmeat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (residents), 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:231
# text = Of households where bushmeat was served, 80% of residents said they cooked it "once in a while," while 13% cooked it once a week and 7% cooked bushmeat daily.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	households	household	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
4	bushmeat	bushmeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cooked	cook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	cooked	cook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	advmod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	bushmeat	bushmeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
36	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past · passive |  | bushmeat |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | of households | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cook** | past | residents *= resident* | bushmeat |  |  | while | once *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **cook** | past |  | bushmeat |  |  |  | % cooked bushmeat *conj*; daily, once *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **cook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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