Guinea-Bissau, sentence 94
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.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, thousands of captive Africans were taken from the region every year; an average of 3000 persons were shipped every year from Guinala alone.
What happens: take, ship, average · To what, where: thousands, region, average, Guinala, 3000 persons
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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 6 centuries | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 centuries | det |
| 3 | 17th | 17th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 6 centuries | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 18th | cc |
| 5 | 18th | 18th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 3 17th | conj |
| 6 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 taken | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 centuries | punct |
| 8 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Africans | case |
| 10 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Africans | amod |
| 11 | Africans | African | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 thousands | nmod |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | aux:pass |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 region | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 region | det |
| 16 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obl |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 year | det |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 shipped | punct |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 average | det |
| 21 | average | average | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shipped | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 persons | case |
| 23 | 3000 | 3000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 persons | nummod |
| 24 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 average | nmod |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 shipped | aux:pass |
| 26 | shipped | ship | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 taken | conj |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 year | det |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shipped | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 Guinala | case |
| 30 | Guinala | Guinala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 shipped | obl |
| 31 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 26 shipped | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | thousands of captive Africans | the region | century; year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from region=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ship | past · passive | a average of 3000 persons | Guinala | year | alone property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from guinala=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | average | 3000 persons | nom average «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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