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title: Guinea's opposition was backed by the Fula ethnic group, who account… — Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: Guinea's opposition was backed by the Fula ethnic group, who account for around 33.4% of the population. Who acts: Fula ethnic group, Guinea. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea, sentence 181

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From Wikipedia, [«Guinea»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea), 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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Guinea's opposition was backed by the Fula ethnic group, who account for around 33.4% of the population.

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**Who acts:** Fula ethnic group, Guinea · **What happens:** back, account, oppose · **To what, where:** opposition

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Guinea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fula ethnic group, Guinea), 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:181
# text = Guinea's opposition was backed by the Fula ethnic group, who account for around 33.4% of the population.
1	Guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	backed	back	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Fula	Fula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	around	around	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	33.4	33.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **back** | past · passive |  | Guinea's opposition |  |  |  | by the Fula ethnic group and account | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme by group=Trajectory |
| 2 | **account** |  | the Fula ethnic group and account |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **oppose** |  | Guinea |  |  |  |  |  | nom opposition «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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», 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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