Costa Rica, sentence 31

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.

Costa Rica's distance from the capital of the captaincy in Guatemala, its legal prohibition under mercantilist Spanish law from trade with its southern neighbor Panama, then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (i.e. Colombia), and lack of resources such as gold and silver, made Costa Rica into a poor, isolated, and sparsely inhabited region within the Spanish Empire.

Who acts: distance, captaincy · What happens: make, inhabit, prohibit, lack · To what, where: Costa, poor inhabited region, mercantilist Spanish law, resources

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 (distance, captaincy), 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	Costa	Costa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 distance	nmod:poss
2	Rica	Rica	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Costa	flat
3	's	's	PART	_	1 Costa	case
4	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 made	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 capital	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 capital	det
7	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 distance	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 captaincy	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 captaincy	det
10	captaincy	captaincy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 capital	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Guatemala	case
12	Guatemala	Guatemala	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 captaincy	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 prohibition	punct
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 prohibition	nmod:poss
15	legal	legal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 prohibition	amod
16	prohibition	prohibition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 distance	conj
17	under	under	ADP	_	20 law	case
18	mercantilist	mercantilist	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 law	compound
19	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 law	amod
20	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 prohibition	nmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 trade	case
22	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 law	nmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	27 Panama	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 neighbor	nmod:poss
25	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 neighbor	amod
26	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Panama	nmod:desc
27	Panama	Panama	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 prohibition	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 part	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 part	advmod
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 distance	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Viceroyalty	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Viceroyalty	det
33	Viceroyalty	viceroyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Granada	case
35	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Granada	amod
36	Granada	Granada	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Viceroyalty	nmod
37	(	(	PUNCT	_	39 Colombia	punct
38	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	39 Colombia	advmod
39	Colombia	Colombia	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Granada	appos
40	)	)	PUNCT	_	39 Colombia	punct
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lack	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 lack	cc
43	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 distance	conj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 resources	case
45	resources	resource	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 lack	nmod
46	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	48 gold	case
47	as	as	ADP	_	46 such	fixed
48	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 resources	nmod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 silver	cc
50	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 gold	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 distance	punct
52	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
53	Costa	Costa	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 made	obj
54	Rica	Rica	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Costa	flat
55	into	into	ADP	_	64 region	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 region	det
57	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 region	amod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 isolated	punct
59	isolated	isolated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 poor	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 region	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 region	cc
62	sparsely	sparsely	ADV	_	63 inhabited	advmod
63	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	64 region	amod
64	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 made	obl
65	within	within	ADP	_	68 Empire	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 Empire	det
67	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 Empire	amod
68	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 made	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	52 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	Costa's distance from the capital of the captaincy in Guatemala and captaincy's legal prohibition under mercantilist Spanish law from trade with Panama trade's southern neighbor and part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada and lack of resources such gold and silver	Costa	a poor inhabited region	within the Spanish Empire	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent costa=Material into region=Product
2	inhabit	participle				sparsely property	tree rules
3	prohibit		captaincy		mercantilist Spanish law from trade	with Panama trade's southern neighbor	nom prohibition «communication transitive»: poss=agent under=place with=obl
4	lack			resources such gold and silver			nom lack «state transitive»: of=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.

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 31