Costa Rica, sentence 21
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.
For the first and second millennia BCE there were already settled farming communities.
What happens: settle · To what, where: BCE
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 6 millennia | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 millennia | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 millennia | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 second | cc |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 first | conj |
| 6 | millennia | millennia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 settled | obl |
| 7 | BCE | BCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 settled | expl |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 settled | aux:pass |
| 10 | already | already | ADV | _ | 11 settled | advmod |
| 11 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | farming | farming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 communities | compound |
| 13 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 settled | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past · passive | BCE | there | for the first millennia; farming communities obj | tree rules |
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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