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title: Bissau (/bɪˈsaʊ/; biˈsaw) is the capital and largest city of Guinea-… — Bissau · tree and pragmatics
description: Bissau (/bɪˈsaʊ/; biˈsaw) is the capital and largest city of Guinea-Bissau. as of 2015 it had a population of 492,004. Who acts: Bissau, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bissau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bissau, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Bissau»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bissau), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Bissau (/bɪˈsaʊ/; biˈsaw) is the capital and largest city of Guinea-Bissau. as of 2015 it had a population of 492,004.

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**Who acts:** Bissau, city · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** capital, population

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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 (Bissau, city), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Bissau:1
# text = Bissau (/bɪˈsaʊ/; biˈsaw) is the capital and largest city of Guinea-Bissau. as of 2015 it had a population of 492,004.
1	Bissau	Bissau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bɪˈsaʊ	bɪˈsaʊ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	/	/	SYM	,	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	biˈsaw	biˈsaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Bissau	Bissau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	492,004	492,004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Bissau | the capital and largest city of Guinea and Bissau as 2015 |  |  |  | largest city of Guinea and Bissau as 2015 *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | city | a population of 492,004 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient |

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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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**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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