Nicaragua, sentence 435
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.
The black population is mostly composed of black English-speaking Creoles who are the descendants of escaped or shipwrecked slaves; many carry the name of Scottish settlers who brought slaves with them, such as Campbell, Gordon, Downs, and Hodgson.
Who acts: black speaking Creoles, many, Scottish settlers · What happens: compose, speak, be, escape, shipwreck, carry · To what, where: black population, descendants, name, slaves, Scottish settlers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (black speaking Creoles, many, Scottish settlers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 population | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 population | amod |
| 3 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 composed | aux:pass |
| 5 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 6 composed | advmod |
| 6 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Creoles | case |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Creoles | amod |
| 9 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 speaking | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 English | punct |
| 11 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 Creoles | amod |
| 12 | Creoles | creole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 composed | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 descendants | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 descendants | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 descendants | det |
| 16 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Creoles | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 slaves | case |
| 18 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 slaves | amod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 shipwrecked | cc |
| 20 | shipwrecked | shipwreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 escaped | conj |
| 21 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 descendants | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 carry | punct |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 carry | nsubj |
| 24 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 composed | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 name | det |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carry | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 settlers | case |
| 28 | Scottish | Scottish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 settlers | amod |
| 29 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 name | nmod |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 brought | nsubj |
| 31 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 settlers | acl:relcl |
| 32 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 brought | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 slaves | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Campbell | punct |
| 36 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 38 Campbell | case |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 such | fixed |
| 38 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 slaves | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Gordon | punct |
| 40 | Gordon | Gordon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Campbell | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Downs | punct |
| 42 | Downs | Down | PROPN | Number=Plur | 38 Campbell | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Hodgson | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 Hodgson | cc |
| 45 | Hodgson | Hodgson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 carry | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 composed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compose | present · passive | the black population | of black speaking Creoles; mostly property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | English compound | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | black speaking Creoles | the descendants | of escaped slaves | tree rules | |||
| 4 | escape | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | shipwreck | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | carry | present | many | the name of Scottish settlers | Hodgson obl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||
| 7 | bring | past | Scottish settlers | slaves | with slaves = slave; such Campbell and Gordon and Downs | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent slave=Theme | |||
| 8 | name | Scottish settlers | nom name «communication 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, «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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