Bissau, sentence 2
From Wikipedia, «Bissau», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Bissau is located on the Geba River estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean, and is Guinea-Bissau's major port, as well as the country's administrative and military center.
What happens: locate, be · To what, where: Bissau, River estuary, major port
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bissau». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bissau | Bissau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 located | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 located | aux:pass |
| 3 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 estuary | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 estuary | det |
| 6 | Geba | Geba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 River | compound |
| 7 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 estuary | compound |
| 8 | estuary | estuary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 located | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ocean | punct |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 Ocean | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Ocean | det |
| 12 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ocean | compound |
| 13 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 located | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 port | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 port | cc |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 port | cop |
| 17 | Guinea | Guinea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 port | nmod:poss |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Bissau | punct |
| 19 | Bissau | Bissau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Guinea | conj |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Guinea | case |
| 21 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 port | amod |
| 22 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 located | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 administrative | punct |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 30 administrative | cc |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 as | fixed |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 administrative | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 country | det |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 administrative | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 country | case |
| 30 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 port | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 center | cc |
| 32 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 center | amod |
| 33 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 administrative | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 located | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | present · passive | Bissau | the River estuary | off the Atlantic Ocean | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Guinea and Bissau's major port | Guinea and Bissau nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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