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title: The Mandinka, also known as Mandingo or Malinké, comprise 25.4% of t… — Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mandinka, also known as Mandingo or Malinké, comprise 25.4% of the population and are mostly found in eastern Guinea, concentrated around the Kankan and Kissidougou prefectures. Who acts: Mandinka. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea, sentence 263

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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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The Mandinka, also known as Mandingo or Malinké, comprise 25.4% of the population and are mostly found in eastern Guinea, concentrated around the Kankan and Kissidougou prefectures.

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**Who acts:** Mandinka · **What happens:** know, comprise, find, concentrate · **To what, where:** Mandinka, eastern Guinea, Kankan prefectures

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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 (Mandinka), 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:263
# text = The Mandinka, also known as Mandingo or Malinké, comprise 25.4% of the population and are mostly found in eastern Guinea, concentrated around the Kankan and Kissidougou prefectures.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mandinka	Mandinka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mandingo	Mandingo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Malinké	Malinké	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	comprise	comprise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	25.4	25.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	concentrated	concentrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
26	around	around	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	Kankan	Kankan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	Kissidougou	Kissidougou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	prefectures	prefecture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | the Mandinka *not said here* |  |  |  | as Mandingo or Malinké | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as mandingo=Attribute |
| 2 | **comprise** | infinitive | the Mandinka |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Pivot |
| 3 | **find** | present · passive | the Mandinka *not said here* |  |  | eastern Guinea |  | mostly *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |
| 4 | **concentrate** | participle | the Mandinka *not said here* |  |  | the Kankan prefectures |  |  | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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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