Costa Rica, sentence 22
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.
These were small and scattered, although the timing of the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture as the main livelihood in the territory is still unknown.
Who acts: These, transition, timing · What happens: be, scatter, hunt, gather
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 (These, transition, timing), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 small | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 small | cop |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 scattered | cc |
| 5 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 small | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 unknown | punct |
| 7 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 28 unknown | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 timing | det |
| 9 | timing | timing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 unknown | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 transition | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 transition | det |
| 12 | transition | transition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 timing | nmod |
| 13 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 14 hunting | mark |
| 14 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 transition | acl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gathering | cc |
| 16 | gathering | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 hunting | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 agriculture | case |
| 18 | agriculture | agriculture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gathering | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 livelihood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 livelihood | det |
| 21 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 livelihood | amod |
| 22 | livelihood | livelihood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gathering | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 territory | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 territory | det |
| 25 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 livelihood | nmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 unknown | cop |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 unknown | advmod |
| 28 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scattered | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | These | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scatter | participle | These not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | the transition not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | gather | gerund | the transition not said here | to agriculture; as the main livelihood in the territory | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to agriculture=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the timing of the transition | still | unknown property | 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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