Nicaragua, sentence 421
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.
There is a growing expatriate community, the majority of whom move for business, investment or retirement from across the world, such as from the United States, Canada, Taiwan, and European countries; the majority have settled in Managua, Granada and San Juan del Sur.
Who acts: growing expatriate community · What happens: be, grow, move, settle · To what, where: European countries, world, majority, Managua
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 (growing expatriate community), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 community | det |
| 4 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 community | amod |
| 5 | expatriate | expatriate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 community | compound |
| 6 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 majority | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 majority | det |
| 9 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 whom | case |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 move | obl |
| 12 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 majority | acl:relcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 business | case |
| 14 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 move | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 investment | punct |
| 16 | investment | investment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 business | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 retirement | cc |
| 18 | retirement | retirement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 business | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 20 | across | across | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 move | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 States | punct |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 29 States | case |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 such | fixed |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 States | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 States | det |
| 28 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 States | amod |
| 29 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 world | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Canada | punct |
| 31 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 States | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Taiwan | punct |
| 33 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 States | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 countries | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 countries | cc |
| 36 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 countries | amod |
| 37 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 move | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 settled | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 majority | det |
| 40 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 settled | aux |
| 42 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 is | conj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 Managua | case |
| 44 | Managua | Managua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 settled | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Granada | punct |
| 46 | Granada | Granada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Managua | conj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 San | cc |
| 48 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Managua | conj |
| 49 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 del | compound |
| 50 | del | Del | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Sur | compound |
| 51 | Sur | Sur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Managua | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a growing expatriate community | there | the majority parataxis | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | move | present | European countries | the world such the United States and Canada and Taiwan | of the majority; for business and investment or retirement | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme of whom=Source from world=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | settle | present · perfect · passive | the majority | Managua and Granada and San and del Sur | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in managua=Location |
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, «Nicaragua», 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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