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title: They believed these uprisings would be motivated by a desire to achi… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: They believed these uprisings would be motivated by a desire to achieve the freedoms experienced by formerly enslaved peoples, specifically freedom from violence and reunions with separated family. Who acts: owners, desire. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liberia, sentence 54

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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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They believed these uprisings would be motivated by a desire to achieve the freedoms experienced by formerly enslaved peoples, specifically freedom from violence and reunions with separated family.

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**Who acts:** owners, desire · **What happens:** believe, motivate, achieve, experience, enslave, separate · **To what, where:** uprisings, freedoms · **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 (owners, desire), 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:54
# text = They believed these uprisings would be motivated by a desire to achieve the freedoms experienced by formerly enslaved peoples, specifically freedom from violence and reunions with separated family.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	uprisings	uprising	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	motivated	motivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	achieve	achieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	freedoms	freedom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	experienced	experience	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	enslaved	enslave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	specifically	specifically	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	reunions	reunion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	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 | **believe** | past | owners *= owner* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **motivate** | would · passive | a desire | this uprisings |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **achieve** | to-infinitive | a desire *not said here* | the freedoms |  |  |  | freedom from violence with separated family and reunions *obl* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Eventuality |
| 4 | **experience** | participle |  | the freedoms *not said here* |  |  |  | by enslaved peoples | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **enslave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | formerly *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **separate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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