Guinea-Bissau, sentence 64
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.
This long-running conflict was marked by the 1867 Battle of Kansala; the Fuladu effectively defeated the Kaabu and dominated the area thereafter.
Who acts: 1867 Battle, Fuladu · What happens: run, mark, defeat, dominate · To what, where: running conflict, Kaabu, area
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 (1867 Battle, Fuladu), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 conflict | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 running | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 conflict | amod |
| 5 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 marked | aux:pass |
| 7 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Battle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Battle | det |
| 10 | 1867 | 1867 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 Battle | nummod |
| 11 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 marked | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Kansala | case |
| 13 | Kansala | Kansala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Battle | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 defeated | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Fuladu | det |
| 16 | Fuladu | Fuladu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 defeated | nsubj |
| 17 | effectively | effectively | ADV | _ | 18 defeated | advmod |
| 18 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 marked | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Kaabu | det |
| 20 | Kaabu | Kaabu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 defeated | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dominated | cc |
| 22 | dominated | dominate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 defeated | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 area | det |
| 24 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dominated | obj |
| 25 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 22 dominated | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | mark | past · passive | the 1867 Battle of Kansala | this running conflict | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | defeat | past | the Fuladu | the Kaabu | effectively property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | dominate | past | the Fuladu not said here | the area | thereafter property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme area=Co-Theme |
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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