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title: In 1822, the ACS began sending free people of color to the Pepper Co… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1822, the ACS began sending free people of color to the Pepper Coast voluntarily to establish a colony. Who acts: ACS. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liberia, sentence 58

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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 1822, the ACS began sending free people of color to the Pepper Coast voluntarily to establish a colony.

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**Who acts:** ACS · **What happens:** begin, send, establish · **To what, where:** 1822, free people, colony

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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 (ACS), 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:58
# text = In 1822, the ACS began sending free people of color to the Pepper Coast voluntarily to establish a colony.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1822	1822	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ACS	Ac	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	sending	send	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Pepper	Pepper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	voluntarily	voluntarily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the ACS |  |  | 1822 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **send** | gerund | the ACS *not said here* | free people of color to the Pepper Coast |  |  |  | voluntarily *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **establish** | to-infinitive | the ACS *not said here* | a colony |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=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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