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title: King, 1880s and served three terms — Monrovia · tree and pragmatics
description: King, 1880s and served three terms Who acts: King. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Monrovia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Monrovia, sentence 160

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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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King, 1880s and served three terms

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** serve · **To what, where:** three terms

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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 (King), 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:160
# text = King, 1880s and served three terms
1	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	1880s	1880	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past | King and 1880s | three terms |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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