--- title: On 9 January 2012, President Sanhá died, and Pereira was again appoi… — Guinea-Bissau · tree and pragmatics description: On 9 January 2012, President Sanhá died, and Pereira was again appointed as an interim president. Who acts: Sanhá. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea-Bissau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guinea-Bissau/152/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Guinea-Bissau](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guinea-Bissau/) / 152 # Guinea-Bissau, sentence 152 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. On 9 January 2012, President Sanhá died, and Pereira was again appointed as an interim president. **Who acts:** Sanhá · **What happens:** die, appoint · **To what, where:** 9, Pereira 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 (Sanhá), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Guinea-Bissau:152 # text = On 9 January 2012, President Sanhá died, and Pereira was again appointed as an interim president. 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 3 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 2012 2012 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 President President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:desc _ _ 7 Sanhá Sanhá PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 Pereira Pereira PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 13 again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 interim interim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | past | Sanhá President | | | 9 | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **appoint** | past · passive | | Pereira | | | again | as a interim president | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as president=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guinea-Bissau/151/) - next →: [sentence 153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guinea-Bissau/153/) - ↑ back to [Guinea-Bissau](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guinea-Bissau/)