Guinea-Bissau, sentence 10
From Wikipedia, «Guinea-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 a 2012 study, 54% of the population speak Creole as a first language and about 40% speak it as a second language.
What happens: accord, speak · To what, where: Creole, language · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Guinea-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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 study | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 study | det |
| 4 | 2012 | 2012 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 study | compound |
| 5 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 speak | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 study | punct |
| 7 | 54 | 54 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 % | nummod |
| 8 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 12 speak | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 population | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 population | det |
| 11 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 % | nmod |
| 12 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Creole | Creole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 speak | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 language | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 language | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 language | amod |
| 17 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 speak | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 speak | cc |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 40 | advmod |
| 20 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 % | nummod |
| 21 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 22 speak | obl |
| 22 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 speak | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 speak | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 language | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 language | det |
| 26 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 language | amod |
| 27 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 speak | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 speak | 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 | speak speech: other | present | Creole | accord a 2012 study; as a first language | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | language | as a second language | 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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