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title: From independence in 1974, until Jose Mario Vaz ended his five-year… — Guinea-Bissau · tree and pragmatics
description: From independence in 1974, until Jose Mario Vaz ended his five-year term as president on 24 June 2019, no president successfully served a full five-year term. Who acts: Mario Vaz, president, Vaz. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea-Bissau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea-Bissau, sentence 173

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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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From independence in 1974, until Jose Mario Vaz ended his five-year term as president on 24 June 2019, no president successfully served a full five-year term.

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**Who acts:** Mario Vaz, president, Vaz · **What happens:** end, serve, term · **To what, where:** year term, independence, full year term

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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 (Mario Vaz, president, Vaz), 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:173
# text = From independence in 1974, until Jose Mario Vaz ended his five-year term as president on 24 June 2019, no president successfully served a full five-year term.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1974	1974	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	Jose	Jose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Mario	Mario	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Vaz	Vaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	successfully	successfully	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
28	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
29	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past | Mario Vaz | Vaz's year term as president |  | independence in 1974 | june |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **serve** | past | no president *not said here* | a full year term |  |  |  | successfully *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Attribute |
| 3 | **term** |  | Vaz |  |  |  |  | as president | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent as=obl |

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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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