Costa Rica, sentence 232
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.
Of native languages still spoken, primarily in indigenous reservations, the most numerically important are the Bribri, Maléku, Cabécar and Ngäbere languages; some of these have several thousand speakers in Costa Rica while others have a few hundred.
Who acts: some, others · What happens: speak, be, have · To what, where: indigenous reservations, important Bribri, thousand speakers, Costa, few hundred · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (some, others), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 languages | case |
| 2 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 languages | amod |
| 3 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spoken | obl |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 spoken | advmod |
| 5 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reservations | punct |
| 7 | primarily | primarily | ADV | _ | 10 reservations | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 reservations | case |
| 9 | indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 reservations | amod |
| 10 | reservations | reservation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spoken | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Bribri | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Bribri | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 numerically | advmod |
| 14 | numerically | numerically | ADV | _ | 15 important | advmod |
| 15 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Bribri | amod |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Bribri | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Bribri | det |
| 18 | Bribri | Bribri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reservations | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Maléku | punct |
| 20 | Maléku | Maléku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Bribri | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Cabécar | punct |
| 22 | Cabécar | Cabécar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Bribri | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 languages | cc |
| 24 | Ngäbere | Ngäbere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 languages | compound |
| 25 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Bribri | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 have | punct |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 have | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 these | case |
| 29 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 some | nmod |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoken | parataxis |
| 31 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 thousand | amod |
| 32 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 speakers | nummod |
| 33 | speakers | speaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 have | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Costa | case |
| 35 | Costa | Costa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 speakers | nmod |
| 36 | Rica | Rica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Costa | flat |
| 37 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 39 have | mark |
| 38 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 have | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 have | advcl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 hundred | det |
| 41 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 hundred | amod |
| 42 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 have | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | participle | indigenous reservations | still | of native languages | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the important Bribri and Cabécar and Ngäbere languages | Cabécar conj; Ngäbere languages conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | some of these | thousand speakers | Costa | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speaker=Patient | |||
| 4 | have | present | others | a few hundred | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient |
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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