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title: The civil war from 1998 to 1999, and a military coup in September 20… — Guinea-Bissau · tree and pragmatics
description: The civil war from 1998 to 1999, and a military coup in September 2003, again disrupted economic activity, leaving a substantial part of the economic and social infrastructure in ruins and intensifying the already widespread poverty. Who acts: military coup, disrupted economic activity. A sentence o
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# Guinea-Bissau, sentence 203

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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 civil war from 1998 to 1999, and a military coup in September 2003, again disrupted economic activity, leaving a substantial part of the economic and social infrastructure in ruins and intensifying the already widespread poverty.

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**Who acts:** military coup, disrupted economic activity · **What happens:** disrupt, activity, leave, intensify · **To what, where:** substantial part, widespread poverty, civil war

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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 (military coup, disrupted economic activity), 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:203
# text = The civil war from 1998 to 1999, and a military coup in September 2003, again disrupted economic activity, leaving a substantial part of the economic and social infrastructure in ruins and intensifying the already widespread poverty.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1998	1998	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	2003	2003	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	disrupted	disrupt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
19	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	substantial	substantial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	infrastructure	infrastructure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	intensifying	intensify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	already	already	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disrupt** | participle |  |  |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **activity** |  | a military coup in September  2003 |  |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | disrupted economic activity *not said here* | a substantial part of the economic infrastructure in ruins |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 4 | **intensify** | gerund | disrupted economic activity *not said here* | the widespread poverty |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent poverty=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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