Guinea-Bissau, sentence 26
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.
Items traded included pepper and kola nuts from the southern forests; iron and iron utensils from the savannah-forest zone; salt and dried fish from the coast; and Mandinka cotton cloth.
Who acts: Items · What happens: trade, include, dry · To what, where: included pepper, southern forests, fish, coast
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: who acts (Items), 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 | Items | item | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 traded | nsubj |
| 2 | traded | trade | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | included | include | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pepper | amod |
| 4 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 traded | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 nuts | cc |
| 6 | kola | kola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nuts | compound |
| 7 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pepper | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 forests | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forests | det |
| 10 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 forests | amod |
| 11 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 traded | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 utensils | punct |
| 13 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 utensils | compound |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 iron | cc |
| 15 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 iron | conj |
| 16 | utensils | utensil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 traded | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 zone | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 zone | det |
| 19 | savannah | savannah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 forest | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 savannah | punct |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 zone | compound |
| 22 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 utensils | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 salt | punct |
| 24 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 traded | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dried | cc |
| 26 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 traded | conj |
| 27 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dried | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 coast | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 coast | det |
| 30 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dried | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 cloth | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Mandinka | cc |
| 33 | Mandinka | Mandinka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 cloth | compound |
| 34 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cloth | compound |
| 35 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 traded | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 traded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trade | past | Items | included pepper and kola nuts | the southern forests | iron utensils from the forest zone obl; salt obl; Mandinka cotton cloth obl | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pepper=Theme | ||
| 2 | include | participle | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | dry | past | Items not said here | fish | the coast | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fish=Result |
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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