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title: In 2023, an attempted coup reportedly occurred in the capital, Bissa… — Guinea-Bissau · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2023, an attempted coup reportedly occurred in the capital, Bissau, leading Embaló to order the dissolution of the opposition-controlled parliament. Who acts: attempted coup. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea-Bissau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea-Bissau, sentence 164

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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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In 2023, an attempted coup reportedly occurred in the capital, Bissau, leading Embaló to order the dissolution of the opposition-controlled parliament.

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**Who acts:** attempted coup · **What happens:** attempt, occur, lead, order, control, dissolve · **To what, where:** 2023, Embaló, dissolution, controlled parliament

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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 (attempted coup), 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:164
# text = In 2023, an attempted coup reportedly occurred in the capital, Bissau, leading Embaló to order the dissolution of the opposition-controlled parliament.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	reportedly	reportedly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Bissau	Bissau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	Embaló	Embaló	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dissolution	dissolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	controlled	control	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **occur** | past | a attempted coup |  |  | 2023 |  | in the capital; reportedly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 2023=Location |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | a attempted coup *not said here* | Embaló |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embaló=Theme |
| 4 | **order** | to-infinitive | a attempted coup *not said here* | the dissolution of the controlled parliament |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dissolution=Theme |
| 5 | **control** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | opposition *compound* | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **dissolve** |  |  | the controlled parliament |  |  |  |  | nom dissolution «process transitive»: of=patient |

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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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