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title: Monrovia experienced rapid population growth during the Liberian civ… — Monrovia · tree and pragmatics
description: Monrovia experienced rapid population growth during the Liberian civil wars (1989–2003), driven largely by internal displacement from rural areas. Who acts: Monrovia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Monrovia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Monrovia, sentence 11

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From Wikipedia, [«Monrovia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monrovia), 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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Monrovia experienced rapid population growth during the Liberian civil wars (1989–2003), driven largely by internal displacement from rural areas.

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**Who acts:** Monrovia · **What happens:** experience, drive · **To what, where:** rapid population growth

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Monrovia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monrovia), 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:Monrovia:11
# text = Monrovia experienced rapid population growth during the Liberian civil wars (1989–2003), driven largely by internal displacement from rural areas.
1	Monrovia	Monrovia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	experienced	experience	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	during	during	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Liberian	liberian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	2003	2003	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
18	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	displacement	displacement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **experience** | past | Monrovia | rapid population growth |  |  | during the Liberian civil wars | 1989 – 2003 *obl* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer growth=Stimulus |
| 2 | **drive** | participle | Monrovia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by internal displacement from rural areas; largely *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Monrovia», 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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