Costa Rica, sentence 170

From Wikipedia, «Costa Rica», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

In 2016, Amazon.com for example, had some 3,500 employees in Costa Rica and planned to increase that by 1,500 in 2017, making it an important employer.

Who acts: Amazon.com · What happens: have, plan, increase, make · To what, where: 3,500 employees, 2016, that, example

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Costa Rica». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amazon.com), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 2016	case
2	2016	2016	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 had	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 2016	punct
4	Amazon.com	Amazon.com	PROPN	_	8 had	nsubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 example	case
6	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 example	punct
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 employees	det
10	3,500	3500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 employees	nummod
11	employees	employee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Costa	case
13	Costa	Costa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 employees	nmod
14	Rica	Rica	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Costa	flat
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 planned	cc
16	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 had	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 increase	mark
18	increase	increase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 planned	xcomp
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 increase	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 1,500	case
21	1,500	1,500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 increase	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 2017	case
23	2017	2017	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 1,500	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 making	punct
25	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 increase	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 making	obj
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 employer	det
28	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 employer	amod
29	employer	employer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 making	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Amazon.com	some 3,500 employees	2016	for example; in Costa	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employee=Patient
2	plan	participle	Amazon.com not said here				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	increase not said to happen	to-infinitive	Amazon.com not said here	that		by 1,500 in 2017	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer that=Patient
4	make	gerund	Amazon.com not said here	example		a important employer obj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary employer=Product

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Costa Rica», 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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Costa Rica, sentence 170