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title: On 14 November 1980, João Bernardo Vieira, known as "Nino Vieira", o… — Guinea-Bissau · tree and pragmatics
description: On 14 November 1980, João Bernardo Vieira, known as "Nino Vieira", overthrew President Luís Cabral. Who acts: João. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea-Bissau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea-Bissau, sentence 128

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From Wikipedia, [«Guinea-Bissau»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea-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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On 14 November 1980, João Bernardo Vieira, known as "Nino Vieira", overthrew President Luís Cabral.

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**Who acts:** João · **What happens:** know, overthrow · **To what, where:** Luís, 14

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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 (João), 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:Guinea-Bissau:128
# text = On 14 November 1980, João Bernardo Vieira, known as "Nino Vieira", overthrew President Luís Cabral.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
3	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	João	João	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
7	Bernardo	Bernardo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Vieira	Vieira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Nino	Nino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	Vieira	Vieira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
17	overthrew	overthrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Luís	Luís	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	Cabral	Cabral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as Nino | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as nino=Attribute |
| 2 | **overthrow** | past | João | Luís  President |  | 14 |  |  | 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, «Guinea-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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