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title: When the army was abolished in 1949, it was said that the "army woul… — Costa Rica · tree and pragmatics
description: When the army was abolished in 1949, it was said that the "army would be replaced with an army of teachers". A sentence of Wikipedia's «Costa Rica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Costa Rica, sentence 252

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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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When the army was abolished in 1949, it was said that the "army would be replaced with an army of teachers".

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**What happens:** abolish, say, replace · **To what, where:** army, 1949 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:252
# text = When the army was abolished in 1949, it was said that the "army would be replaced with an army of teachers".
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	abolished	abolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1949	1949	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abolish** | past · passive |  | the army |  | 1949 |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | army |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **replace** *in a quote* | would · passive |  | the army |  |  |  | with a army of teachers | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Location with army=Co-Theme |

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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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