Nicaragua, sentence 38
From Wikipedia, «Nicaragua», 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.
Additionally, there were trade-related colonies in Nicaragua set up by the Aztecs starting in the 14th century.
Who acts: related colonies, Aztecs · What happens: be, set up, start
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nicaragua». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (related colonies, Aztecs), 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 | Additionally | additionally | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Additionally | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | advcl |
| 5 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 related | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 trade | punct |
| 7 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 colonies | amod |
| 8 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Nicaragua | case |
| 10 | Nicaragua | Nicaragua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 colonies | nmod |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Aztecs | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Aztecs | det |
| 15 | Aztecs | Aztec | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 Aztecs | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 century | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 century | det |
| 19 | 14th | 14th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 20 century | amod |
| 20 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 starting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | related colonies in Nicaragua not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set up | past | related colonies in Nicaragua | by the Aztecs; additionally property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by aztec=Destination | ||||
| 3 | start | gerund | the Aztecs not said here | century | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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