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title: The nation was described by a United Nations official as being at ri… — Guinea-Bissau · tree and pragmatics
description: The nation was described by a United Nations official as being at risk for becoming a "narco-state". Who acts: risk. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea-Bissau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea-Bissau, sentence 206

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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 nation was described by a United Nations official as being at risk for becoming a "narco-state".

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**Who acts:** risk · **What happens:** describe, be, become · **To what, where:** nation, narco state

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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 (risk), 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:206
# text = The nation was described by a United Nations official as being at risk for becoming a "narco-state".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	8	compound	_	_
8	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	narco	narco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | past · passive |  | the nation |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as risk | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | gerund | risk *not said here* | a narco state |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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