Costa Rica, sentence 8

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.

Following a brief civil war in 1948, Costa Rica adopted its current constitution in 1949, which granted universal suffrage, provided various social, economic, and educational guarantees for all citizens, and permanently abolished the army, becoming one of the few sovereign nations without a standing military.

Who acts: Costa, educational guarantees, war · What happens: follow, adopt, grant, provide, abolish, become · To what, where: current constitution, 1949, universal suffrage, army, one

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 (Costa, educational guarantees, war), 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	Following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 war	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 war	det
3	brief	brief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 war	amod
4	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 war	amod
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 adopted	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1948	case
7	1948	1948	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 war	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 war	punct
9	Costa	Costa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 adopted	nsubj
10	Rica	Rica	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Costa	flat
11	adopted	adopt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 constitution	nmod:poss
13	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 constitution	amod
14	constitution	constitution	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 adopted	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 1949	case
16	1949	1949	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 adopted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 granted	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 granted	nsubj
19	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 adopted	parataxis
20	universal	universal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 suffrage	amod
21	suffrage	suffrage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 granted	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 provided	punct
23	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 granted	conj
24	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 social	amod
25	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 provided	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 economic	punct
27	economic	economic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 social	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 abolished	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 abolished	cc
30	educational	educational	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 guarantees	amod
31	guarantees	guarantee	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 abolished	nsubj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 citizens	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 citizens	det
34	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 guarantees	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 abolished	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 abolished	cc
37	permanently	permanently	ADV	_	38 abolished	advmod
38	abolished	abolish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 adopted	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 army	det
40	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 abolished	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 becoming	punct
42	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 abolished	advcl
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 becoming	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	48 nations	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 nations	det
46	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 nations	amod
47	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 nations	compound
48	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 one	nmod
49	without	without	ADP	_	52 military	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 military	det
51	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 military	amod
52	military	military	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 becoming	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 adopted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	adopt	past	Costa	war's current constitution	1949	follow a brief civil war in 1948	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Theme
3	grant	past		universal suffrage		which nsubj	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent suffrage=Theme
4	provide	past				social property	vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
5	abolish	past	educational guarantees for all citizens	the army		permanently property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme
6	become	gerund	educational guarantees for all citizens not said here	one of the few sovereign nations		without a standing military	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient one=Result
7	stand	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	constitute		war				nom constitution «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 8