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title: In 2011, over 20 political parties were registered in Liberia, based… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2011, over 20 political parties were registered in Liberia, based largely around personalities and ethnic groups. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liberia, sentence 291

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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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In 2011, over 20 political parties were registered in Liberia, based largely around personalities and ethnic groups.

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**What happens:** register, base · **To what, where:** 20 political parties, 2011, personalities

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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: 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:291
# text = In 2011, over 20 political parties were registered in Liberia, based largely around personalities and ethnic groups.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	registered	register	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Liberia	Liberia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
14	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	around	around	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	personalities	personality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **register** | past · passive |  | 20 political parties |  | 2011 |  | in Liberia | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **base** | participle |  |  |  | personalities and ethnic groups |  | largely *property* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |

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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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