Bissau, sentence 7
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.
According to oral tradition, the kingdom was founded by Mecau, the son of the king of Quinara (Guinala), who moved to the area with his pregnant sister, six wives, and subjects of his father's kingdom.
Who acts: Mecau, son · What happens: accord, found, move · To what, where: kingdom, area
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 (Mecau, son), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 tradition | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | oral | oral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tradition | amod |
| 4 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 founded | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tradition | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kingdom | det |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 founded | aux:pass |
| 9 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Mecau | case |
| 11 | Mecau | Mecau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 founded | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Mecau | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Quinara | case |
| 19 | Quinara | Quinara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 king | nmod |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 Guinala | punct |
| 21 | Guinala | Guinala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Quinara | appos |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 Guinala | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 moved | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 moved | nsubj |
| 25 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 son | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 area | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 area | det |
| 28 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 moved | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 sister | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sister | nmod:poss |
| 31 | pregnant | pregnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 sister | amod |
| 32 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 moved | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wives | punct |
| 34 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 wives | nummod |
| 35 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 sister | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 subjects | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 subjects | cc |
| 38 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 founded | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 kingdom | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 father | nmod:poss |
| 41 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 father | case |
| 43 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 subjects | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | found | past · passive | Mecau | the kingdom | accord oral tradition; subjects of Guinala's father's kingdom obl | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | move | past | the son of the king of Quinara | the area | with Guinala's pregnant sister and six wives | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to area=Trajectory |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Bissau», 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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