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title: On July 20, 2012, the Liberian senate voted unanimously to enact leg… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: On July 20, 2012, the Liberian senate voted unanimously to enact legislation to prohibit and criminalize same-sex marriages. Who acts: Liberian senate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liberia, sentence 319

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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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On July 20, 2012, the Liberian senate voted unanimously to enact legislation to prohibit and criminalize same-sex marriages.

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**Who acts:** Liberian senate · **What happens:** vote, enact, prohibit, criminalize · **To what, where:** 20, legislation, sex marriages

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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 senate), 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:319
# text = On July 20, 2012, the Liberian senate voted unanimously to enact legislation to prohibit and criminalize same-sex marriages.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Liberian	liberian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	senate	senate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	unanimously	unanimously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	enact	enact	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	legislation	legislation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	prohibit	prohibit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	criminalize	criminalize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	marriages	marriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | past | the Liberian senate |  |  | 20  July |  | unanimously *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **enact** | to-infinitive | the Liberian senate *not said here* | legislation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **prohibit** | to-infinitive | the Liberian senate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 4 | **criminalize** | infinitive | the Liberian senate *not said here* | sex marriages |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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