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title: Competition for office was usually contained within the party; a par… — Liberia · tree and pragmatics
description: Competition for office was usually contained within the party; a party nomination virtually ensured election. Who acts: party nomination. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liberia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liberia, sentence 87

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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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Competition for office was usually contained within the party; a party nomination virtually ensured election.

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**Who acts:** party nomination · **What happens:** contain, ensure · **To what, where:** Competition, election

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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 (party nomination), 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:87
# text = Competition for office was usually contained within the party; a party nomination virtually ensured election.
1	Competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	within	within	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	nomination	nomination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	virtually	virtually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	ensured	ensure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | past · passive |  | Competition for office |  |  |  | within the party; usually *property* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **ensure** | past | a party nomination | election |  |  |  | virtually *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition election=Theme |

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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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