Nicaragua, sentence 493
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.
In 1979, Miguel D'Escoto Brockman, a priest who had embraced Liberation Theology, served in the government as foreign minister when the Sandinistas came to power.
Who acts: priest, Sandinistas · What happens: embrace, serve, come · To what, where: Liberation Theology, power, 1979
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 (priest, Sandinistas), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1979 | case |
| 2 | 1979 | 1979 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1979 | punct |
| 4 | Miguel | Miguel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 1979 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | D'Escoto | D'Escoto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Miguel | flat |
| 6 | Brockman | Brockman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Miguel | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 priest | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 priest | det |
| 9 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Miguel | appos |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 embraced | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 embraced | aux |
| 12 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 priest | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Liberation | Liberation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Theology | compound |
| 14 | Theology | theology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 embraced | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 served | punct |
| 16 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 embraced | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 government | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 government | det |
| 19 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 served | obl:agent |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 minister | case |
| 21 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 minister | amod |
| 22 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 embraced | obl |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 came | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sandinistas | det |
| 25 | Sandinistas | Sandinistas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 embraced | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 power | case |
| 28 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Miguel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past · perfect | a priest | Liberation Theology | as foreign minister | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theology=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | serve | participle | a priest not said here | the government obl:agent | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the Sandinistas | power | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to power=Initial_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.
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