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title: This long-running conflict was marked by the 1867 Battle of Kansala;… — Guinea-Bissau · tree and pragmatics
description: This long-running conflict was marked by the 1867 Battle of Kansala; the Fuladu effectively defeated the Kaabu and dominated the area thereafter. Who acts: 1867 Battle, Fuladu. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea-Bissau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea-Bissau, sentence 64

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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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This long-running conflict was marked by the 1867 Battle of Kansala; the Fuladu effectively defeated the Kaabu and dominated the area thereafter.

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**Who acts:** 1867 Battle, Fuladu · **What happens:** run, mark, defeat, dominate · **To what, where:** running conflict, Kaabu, area

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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 (1867 Battle, Fuladu), 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:64
# text = This long-running conflict was marked by the 1867 Battle of Kansala; the Fuladu effectively defeated the Kaabu and dominated the area thereafter.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	1867	1867	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Kansala	Kansala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Fuladu	Fuladu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	effectively	effectively	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Kaabu	Kaabu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	dominated	dominate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mark** | past · passive | the 1867 Battle of Kansala | this running conflict |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |
| 3 | **defeat** | past | the Fuladu | the Kaabu |  |  |  | effectively *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **dominate** | past | the Fuladu *not said here* | the area |  |  |  | thereafter *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme area=Co-Theme |

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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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