Nicaragua, sentence 79
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.
U.S. motives included differences over the proposed Nicaragua Canal, Nicaragua's potential to destabilize the region, and Zelaya's attempts to regulate foreign access to Nicaraguan natural resources.
Who acts: U.S., attempts, Zelaya · What happens: motive, include, propose, destabilize, regulate, attempt · To what, where: included differences, proposed Nicaragua Canal, region, foreign access
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 (U.S., attempts, Zelaya), 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 | U.S. | U.S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 motives | nsubj |
| 2 | motives | motive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | included | include | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 differences | amod |
| 4 | differences | difference | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 motives | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 Canal | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Canal | det |
| 7 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Canal | amod |
| 8 | Nicaragua | Nicaragua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Canal | compound |
| 9 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 motives | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 potential | punct |
| 11 | Nicaragua | Nicaragua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 potential | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Nicaragua | case |
| 13 | potential | potential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Canal | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 destabilize | mark |
| 15 | destabilize | destabilize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 potential | csubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 region | det |
| 17 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 destabilize | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 regulate | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 regulate | cc |
| 20 | Zelaya | Zelaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 attempts | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Zelaya | case |
| 22 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 regulate | nsubj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 regulate | mark |
| 24 | regulate | regulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 motives | conj |
| 25 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 access | amod |
| 26 | access | access | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 regulate | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 resources | case |
| 28 | Nicaraguan | Nicaraguan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 resources | compound |
| 29 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 resources | amod |
| 30 | resources | resource | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 regulate | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 motives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | motive | present | U.S. | included differences | the proposed Nicaragua Canal | tree rules | |||
| 2 | include | participle | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | propose | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | destabilize | to-infinitive | the region | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent region=Patient | |||||
| 5 | regulate | to-infinitive | Zelaya's attempts | foreign access | to Nicaraguan natural resources | tree rules | |||
| 6 | attempt | Zelaya | nom attempt «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.
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