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title: During the 17th and 18th centuries, thousands of captive Africans we… — Guinea-Bissau · tree and pragmatics
description: During the 17th and 18th centuries, thousands of captive Africans were taken from the region every year; an average of 3000 persons were shipped every year from Guinala alone. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea-Bissau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea-Bissau, sentence 94

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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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During the 17th and 18th centuries, thousands of captive Africans were taken from the region every year; an average of 3000 persons were shipped every year from Guinala alone.

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**What happens:** take, ship, average · **To what, where:** thousands, region, average, Guinala, 3000 persons

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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: 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:94
# text = During the 17th and 18th centuries, thousands of captive Africans were taken from the region every year; an average of 3000 persons were shipped every year from Guinala alone.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	17th	17th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	18th	18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	3	conj	_	_
6	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Africans	African	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	3000	3000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	shipped	ship	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Guinala	Guinala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · passive |  | thousands of captive Africans |  | the region | century; year |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from region=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ship** | past · passive |  | a average of 3000 persons |  | Guinala | year | alone *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from guinala=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **average** |  |  | 3000 persons |  |  |  |  | nom average «cognition 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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