--- title: According to, Guinea-Bissau's population was in, compared to 518,000… — Guinea-Bissau · tree and pragmatics description: According to, Guinea-Bissau's population was in, compared to 518,000 in 1950. Who acts: Guinea population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea-Bissau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guinea-Bissau/210/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Guinea-Bissau](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guinea-Bissau/) / 210 # Guinea-Bissau, sentence 210 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. According to, Guinea-Bissau's population was in, compared to 518,000 in 1950. **Who acts:** Guinea population · **What happens:** accord, be, compare 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 (Guinea population), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:210 # text = According to, Guinea-Bissau's population was in, compared to 518,000 in 1950. 1 According accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 4 Guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Bissau Bissau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 in in ADV RB _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 518,000 518,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 1950 1950 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | Bissau's Guinea population | | | | | in *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **compare** | participle | Bissau's Guinea population *not said here* | | | | | to 518,000 in 1950 | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 209](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guinea-Bissau/209/) - next →: [sentence 211](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guinea-Bissau/211/) - ↑ back to [Guinea-Bissau](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Guinea-Bissau/)