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title: In 2000, Guinea suffered as rebels crossed the borders from Liberia… — Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2000, Guinea suffered as rebels crossed the borders from Liberia and Sierra Leone. Who acts: Guinea, rebels. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Guinea, sentence 84

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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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In 2000, Guinea suffered as rebels crossed the borders from Liberia and Sierra Leone.

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**Who acts:** Guinea, rebels · **What happens:** suffer, cross · **To what, where:** 2000, borders, Liberia

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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 (Guinea, rebels), 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:84
# text = In 2000, Guinea suffered as rebels crossed the borders from Liberia and Sierra Leone.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	rebels	rebel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Liberia	Liberia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	Leone	Leone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | past | Guinea |  |  | 2000 |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cross** | past | rebels | the borders |  | Liberia and Sierra |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=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», 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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