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title: The Constitution calls for the election of various chiefs at the cou… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Constitution calls for the election of various chiefs at the county and local level, but these elections have not taken place since 1985 due to war and financial constraints. Who acts: Constitution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liberia, sentence 270

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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 Constitution calls for the election of various chiefs at the county and local level, but these elections have not taken place since 1985 due to war and financial constraints.

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**Who acts:** Constitution · **What happens:** call, not take, elect · **To what, where:** elections, various chiefs · **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 (Constitution), 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:270
# text = The Constitution calls for the election of various chiefs at the county and local level, but these elections have not taken place since 1985 due to war and financial constraints.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	county	county	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	since	since	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1985	1985	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
26	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	financial	financial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	constraints	constraint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | the Constitution |  |  |  |  | for the election of various chiefs; at the county and local level | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at county=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **take** | present · perfect · passive |  | this elections |  |  | since 1985 | due war and financial constraints; place *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination |
| 3 | **elect** |  |  | various chiefs |  |  |  |  | nom election «act 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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