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title: The 2014 general election saw José Mário Vaz elected President of Gu… — Guinea-Bissau · tree and pragmatics
description: The 2014 general election saw José Mário Vaz elected President of Guinea-Bissau. Who acts: 2014 general election, José. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea-Bissau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea-Bissau, sentence 155

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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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The 2014 general election saw José Mário Vaz elected President of Guinea-Bissau.

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**Who acts:** 2014 general election, José · **What happens:** see, elect · **To what, where:** President · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (2014 general election, José), 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:155
# text = The 2014 general election saw José Mário Vaz elected President of Guinea-Bissau.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	José	José	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	Mário	Mário	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Vaz	Vaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	elected	elect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Bissau	Bissau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the 2014 general election |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **elect** | past | José | President of Guinea Bissau |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=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, «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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