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title: In 1580 the Iberian Union unified the crowns of Portugal and Spain. — Guinea-Bissau · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1580 the Iberian Union unified the crowns of Portugal and Spain. Who acts: Iberian Union. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea-Bissau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea-Bissau, sentence 76

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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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In 1580 the Iberian Union unified the crowns of Portugal and Spain.

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**Who acts:** Iberian Union · **What happens:** unify, crown · **To what, where:** crowns, 1580, Portugal

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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 (Iberian Union), 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:76
# text = In 1580 the Iberian Union unified the crowns of Portugal and Spain.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1580	1580	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Iberian	Iberian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	unified	unify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unify** | past | the Iberian Union | the crowns of Portugal and Spain |  | 1580 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **crown** |  |  | Portugal and Spain |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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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