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title: In 2014 Monrovia was affected by the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak. — Monrovia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2014 Monrovia was affected by the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak. Who acts: 2014 outbreak. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Monrovia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Monrovia, sentence 52

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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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In 2014 Monrovia was affected by the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak.

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**Who acts:** 2014 outbreak · **What happens:** affect · **To what, where:** Monrovia, 2014

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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 (2014 outbreak), 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:52
# text = In 2014 Monrovia was affected by the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	Monrovia	Monrovia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	affected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
9	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	Ebola	Ebola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	outbreak	outbreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affect** | past · passive | the 2014 outbreak | Monrovia |  | 2014 |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |

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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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