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title: Industrial miners' poor wages, working conditions, and living condit… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: Industrial miners' poor wages, working conditions, and living conditions have sparked protests from the beginning of the Liberian mining industry continuing to today. Who acts: poor wages, Liberian mining industry. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liberia, sentence 26

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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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Industrial miners' poor wages, working conditions, and living conditions have sparked protests from the beginning of the Liberian mining industry continuing to today.

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**Who acts:** poor wages, Liberian mining industry · **What happens:** work, spark, continue, begin · **To what, where:** living conditions, beginning, poor wages, Liberian mining industry

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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 (poor wages, Liberian mining industry), 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:26
# text = Industrial miners' poor wages, working conditions, and living conditions have sparked protests from the beginning of the Liberian mining industry continuing to today.
1	Industrial	industrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	miners	miner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sparked	spark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
15	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Liberian	liberian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	continuing	continue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spark** | present · perfect · passive | Industrial miners's poor wages and working conditions *not said here* | living conditions |  |  | from the beginning of the Liberian mining industry | protests *obj* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Theme protest=Eventuality |
| 3 | **continue** | gerund | the Liberian mining industry *not said here* |  |  |  | today |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **begin** |  |  | the Liberian mining industry |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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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