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title: Bissau is located on the Geba River estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean,… — Bissau · tree and pragmatics
description: Bissau is located on the Geba River estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean, and is Guinea-Bissau's major port, as well as the country's administrative and military center. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bissau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bissau, sentence 2

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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 is located on the Geba River estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean, and is Guinea-Bissau's major port, as well as the country's administrative and military center.

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**What happens:** locate, be · **To what, where:** Bissau, River estuary, major port

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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: 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:2
# text = Bissau is located on the Geba River estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean, and is Guinea-Bissau's major port, as well as the country's administrative and military center.
1	Bissau	Bissau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Geba	Geba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	estuary	estuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
17	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Bissau	Bissau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
21	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	30	cc	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	fixed	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | present · passive |  | Bissau |  | the River estuary |  | off the Atlantic Ocean | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | Guinea and Bissau's major port |  |  |  | Guinea and Bissau *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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