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title: Bôssassu formed a clan of the Papel peoples. — Bissau · tree and pragmatics
description: Bôssassu formed a clan of the Papel peoples. Who acts: Bôssassu. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bissau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bissau, sentence 5

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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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Bôssassu formed a clan of the Papel peoples.

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**Who acts:** Bôssassu · **What happens:** form · **To what, where:** clan

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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 (Bôssassu), 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:5
# text = Bôssassu formed a clan of the Papel peoples.
1	Bôssassu	Bôssassu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Papel	Papel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past | Bôssassu | a clan of the Papel peoples |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clan=Theme |

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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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