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title: From 1977 onward, per capita income in the country rose to more than… — Libya · tree and pragmatics
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# Libya, sentence 180

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From Wikipedia, [«Libya»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya), 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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From 1977 onward, per capita income in the country rose to more than US$11,000, the fifth-highest in Africa, while the Human Development Index became the highest in Africa and greater than that of Saudi Arabia.

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**Who acts:** capita income, Human Development Index · **What happens:** rise, become · **To what, where:** 1977

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Libya». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (capita income, Human Development Index), 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:Libya:180
# text = From 1977 onward, per capita income in the country rose to more than US$11,000, the fifth-highest in Africa, while the Human Development Index became the highest in Africa and greater than that of Saudi Arabia.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1977	1977	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
3	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	per	per	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	capita	capita	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	$	$	SYM	$	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	11,000	11,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	parataxis	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	Human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	Development	Development	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Index	index	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	xcomp	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	conj	_	_
38	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	Saudi	Saudi	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | capita income in the country |  |  | 1977 |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from 1977=Initial\_Location to $=Destination |
| 2 | **become** | past | the Human Development Index |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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, «Libya», 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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