Costa Rica, sentence 221
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 Guanacaste, almost half the population is visibly mestizo, a legacy of the more pervasive unions between Spanish colonists and Chorotega Amerindians through several generations.
Who acts: population · What happens: be · To what, where: visibly mestizo, Guanacaste
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 (population), 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 Guanacaste | case |
| 2 | Guanacaste | Guanacaste | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mestizo | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Guanacaste | punct |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 half | advmod |
| 5 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 7 population | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 population | det |
| 7 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mestizo | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mestizo | cop |
| 9 | visibly | visibly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mestizo | amod |
| 10 | mestizo | mestizo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 legacy | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 legacy | det |
| 13 | legacy | legacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mestizo | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 unions | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 unions | det |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 pervasive | advmod |
| 17 | pervasive | pervasive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 unions | amod |
| 18 | unions | union | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 legacy | nmod |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 colonists | case |
| 20 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 colonists | amod |
| 21 | colonists | colonist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 unions | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Amerindians | cc |
| 23 | Chorotega | Chorotega | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Amerindians | compound |
| 24 | Amerindians | Amerindian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 colonists | conj |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 generations | case |
| 26 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 generations | amod |
| 27 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 legacy | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mestizo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | half population | visibly mestizo | Guanacaste | a legacy of the pervasive unions between Spanish colonists and Chorotega Amerindians through several generations appos | 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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