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title: In 2016, Amazon.com for example, had some 3,500 employees in Costa R… — Costa Rica · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2016, Amazon.com for example, had some 3,500 employees in Costa Rica and planned to increase that by 1,500 in 2017, making it an important employer. Who acts: Amazon.com. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Costa Rica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Costa Rica, sentence 170

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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 2016, Amazon.com for example, had some 3,500 employees in Costa Rica and planned to increase that by 1,500 in 2017, making it an important employer.

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**Who acts:** Amazon.com · **What happens:** have, plan, increase, make · **To what, where:** 3,500 employees, 2016, that, example

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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 (Amazon.com), 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:170
# text = In 2016, Amazon.com for example, had some 3,500 employees in Costa Rica and planned to increase that by 1,500 in 2017, making it an important employer.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Amazon.com	Amazon.com	PROPN	ADD	_	8	nsubj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	3,500	3500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	employees	employee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Costa	Costa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	Rica	Rica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1,500	1,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	employer	employer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Amazon.com | some 3,500 employees |  | 2016 |  | for example; in Costa | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employee=Patient |
| 2 | **plan** | participle | Amazon.com *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **increase** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Amazon.com *not said here* | that |  |  |  | by 1,500 in 2017 | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer that=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | Amazon.com *not said here* | example |  |  |  | a important employer *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary employer=Product |

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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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