Costa Rica, sentence 97
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 is the first tropical country to have stopped and reversed deforestation; it has successfully restored its forestry and developed an ecosystem service to teach biologists and ecologists about its environmental protection measures.
Who acts: Costa, climate · What happens: be, stop, reverse, restore, develop, teach · To what, where: first tropical country, deforestation, climate, ecosystem service, biologists
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, climate), 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 | 7 country | nsubj |
| 2 | Rica | Rica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Costa | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 country | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 country | amod |
| 6 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 country | amod |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 stopped | mark |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stopped | aux |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 country | acl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 reversed | cc |
| 12 | reversed | reverse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 stopped | conj |
| 13 | deforestation | deforestation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reversed | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 restored | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 restored | aux |
| 17 | successfully | successfully | ADV | _ | 18 restored | advmod |
| 18 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 country | parataxis |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 forestry | nmod:poss |
| 20 | forestry | forestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 restored | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 developed | cc |
| 22 | developed | develop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 restored | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 service | det |
| 24 | ecosystem | ecosystem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 service | compound |
| 25 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 developed | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 teach | mark |
| 27 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 developed | advcl |
| 28 | biologists | biologist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 teach | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ecologists | cc |
| 30 | ecologists | ecologist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 biologists | conj |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 35 measures | case |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 measures | nmod:poss |
| 33 | environmental | environmental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 protection | amod |
| 34 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 measures | compound |
| 35 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 biologists | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 country | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Costa | the first tropical country | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | to-infinitive · perfect | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | reverse | participle | deforestation | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent deforestation=Patient | |||||
| 4 | restore | present · perfect · passive | climate | climate's forestry obj; successfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | develop | past | a ecosystem service | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Product | |||||
| 6 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | biologists and ecologists | about climate's protection measures | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent biologist=Recipient about measure=Topic | ||||
| 7 | forest | climate | nom forestry «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | measure | climate | nom measure «act 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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