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title: The farim of Kaabu, the king of Kassa, and other local rulers began… — Guinea-Bissau · tree and pragmatics
description: The farim of Kaabu, the king of Kassa, and other local rulers began to assert their independence. Who acts: farim. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea-Bissau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea-Bissau, sentence 85

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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 farim of Kaabu, the king of Kassa, and other local rulers began to assert their independence.

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**Who acts:** farim · **What happens:** begin, assert · **To what, where:** independence

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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 (farim), 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:85
# text = The farim of Kaabu, the king of Kassa, and other local rulers began to assert their independence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farim	farim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Kaabu	Kaabu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Kassa	Kassa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	assert	assert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the farim of Kaabu |  |  |  |  | other local rulers *nsubj* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **assert** | to-infinitive | the farim of Kaabu *not said here* | kings's independence |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=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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