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title: The French later withdrew, and on 2 October 1958, Guinea proclaimed… — Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: The French later withdrew, and on 2 October 1958, Guinea proclaimed itself a sovereign and independent republic, with Sékou Touré as president. Who acts: French, Guinea. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea, sentence 57

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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 French later withdrew, and on 2 October 1958, Guinea proclaimed itself a sovereign and independent republic, with Sékou Touré as president.

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**Who acts:** French, Guinea · **What happens:** withdraw, proclaim · **To what, where:** independence, 2

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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 (French, 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:57
# text = The French later withdrew, and on 2 October 1958, Guinea proclaimed itself a sovereign and independent republic, with Sékou Touré as president.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
9	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	1958	1958	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Sékou	Sékou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Touré	Touré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **withdraw** | past | the French |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **proclaim** | past | Guinea | independence |  | 2 |  | with Sékou Touré as president; a sovereign and independent republic *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme sovereign=Attribute |

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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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