Bissau, sentence 32
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.
After the declaration of independence by the anti-colonial guerrillas of PAIGC in 1973, the capital of the rebel territories was declared to be Madina do Boe, while Bissau remained the colonial capital.
Who acts: Madina, Bissau, anti-colonial guerrillas · What happens: declare, be, remain · To what, where: capital, colonial capital, independence
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: who acts (Madina, Bissau, anti-colonial guerrillas), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 declaration | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 declaration | det |
| 3 | declaration | declaration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 declared | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 independence | case |
| 5 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 declaration | nmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 guerrillas | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 guerrillas | det |
| 8 | anti-colonial | anti-colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 guerrillas | amod |
| 9 | guerrillas | guerrilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 declaration | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 PAIGC | case |
| 11 | PAIGC | PAIGC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 guerrillas | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1973 | case |
| 13 | 1973 | 1973 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 guerrillas | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 declaration | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 capital | det |
| 16 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 declared | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 territories | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 territories | det |
| 19 | rebel | rebel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 territories | compound |
| 20 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 capital | nmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 declared | aux:pass |
| 22 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 do | cop |
| 25 | Madina | Madina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 do | nsubj |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 declared | advcl |
| 27 | Boe | Boe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 do | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 remained | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 remained | mark |
| 30 | Bissau | Bissau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 remained | nsubj |
| 31 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 declared | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 capital | det |
| 33 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 capital | amod |
| 34 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 remained | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past · passive | the capital of the rebel territories | after the declaration of independence by the anti-colonial guerrillas of PAIGC in 1973 | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Madina | Boe obj; do property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remain | past | Bissau | the colonial capital | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme capital=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | declare | the anti-colonial guerrillas of PAIGC in 1973 | independence | nom declaration «communication transitive»: of=patient by=agent |
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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