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title: Liberia has the highest ratio of foreign direct investment to GDP in… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: Liberia has the highest ratio of foreign direct investment to GDP in the world, with US$16 billion (~$ in) in investment since 2006. Who acts: Liberia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liberia, sentence 347

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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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Liberia has the highest ratio of foreign direct investment to GDP in the world, with US$16 billion (~$ in) in investment since 2006.

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**Who acts:** Liberia · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** highest ratio

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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 (Liberia), 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:347
# text = Liberia has the highest ratio of foreign direct investment to GDP in the world, with US$16 billion (~$ in) in investment since 2006.
1	Liberia	Liberia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	ratio	ratio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	GDP	GDP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	$	$	SYM	$	_	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	_
20	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	~	~	SYM	SYM	_	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	$	$	SYM	$	_	18	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	since	since	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Liberia | the highest ratio of foreign direct investment to GDP in the world |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ratio=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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