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title: In 2010, there was also a dispute around Isla Calero, and the effect… — Costa Rica · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2010, there was also a dispute around Isla Calero, and the effects of Nicaraguan dredging of the river in that area. Who acts: dispute, effects. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Costa Rica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Costa Rica, sentence 133

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From Wikipedia, [«Costa Rica»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In 2010, there was also a dispute around Isla Calero, and the effects of Nicaraguan dredging of the river in that area.

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**Who acts:** dispute, effects · **What happens:** be, dredge, effect · **To what, where:** 2010, area, Nicaraguan

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Costa Rica». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dispute, effects), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Costa_Rica:133
# text = In 2010, there was also a dispute around Isla Calero, and the effects of Nicaraguan dredging of the river in that area.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Isla	Isla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	Calero	Calero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Nicaraguan	Nicaraguan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	dredging	dredge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a dispute around Isla |  |  | 2010; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2010=Location |
| 2 | **dredge** | gerund | the effects of Nicaraguan |  |  | that area |  | of the river | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in area=Location |
| 3 | **effect** |  |  | Nicaraguan |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Costa Rica», 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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