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title: Costa Rica's distance from the capital of the captaincy in Guatemala… — Costa Rica · tree and pragmatics
description: Costa Rica's distance from the capital of the captaincy in Guatemala, its legal prohibition under mercantilist Spanish law from trade with its southern neighbor Panama, then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (i.e. Colombia), and lack of resources such as gold and silver, made Costa Rica into a 
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# Costa Rica, sentence 31

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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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Costa Rica's distance from the capital of the captaincy in Guatemala, its legal prohibition under mercantilist Spanish law from trade with its southern neighbor Panama, then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (i.e. Colombia), and lack of resources such as gold and silver, made Costa Rica into a poor, isolated, and sparsely inhabited region within the Spanish Empire.

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**Who acts:** distance, captaincy · **What happens:** make, inhabit, prohibit, lack · **To what, where:** Costa, poor inhabited region, mercantilist Spanish law, resources

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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 (distance, captaincy), 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:31
# text = Costa Rica's distance from the capital of the captaincy in Guatemala, its legal prohibition under mercantilist Spanish law from trade with its southern neighbor Panama, then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (i.e. Colombia), and lack of resources such as gold and silver, made Costa Rica into a poor, isolated, and sparsely inhabited region within the Spanish Empire.
1	Costa	Costa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Rica	Rica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	captaincy	captaincy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Guatemala	Guatemala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	prohibition	prohibition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	mercantilist	mercantilist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:desc	_	_
27	Panama	Panama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Viceroyalty	viceroyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Granada	Granada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	Colombia	Colombia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
46	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	48	case	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	fixed	_	_
48	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
52	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
53	Costa	Costa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
54	Rica	Rica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	flat	_	_
55	into	into	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
57	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
59	isolated	isolated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
62	sparsely	sparsely	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	64	amod	_	_
64	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
65	within	within	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
67	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
68	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	52	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Costa's distance from the capital of the captaincy in Guatemala and captaincy's legal prohibition under mercantilist Spanish law from trade with Panama  trade's southern neighbor and part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada and lack of resources such gold and silver | Costa |  | a poor inhabited region |  | within the Spanish Empire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent costa=Material into region=Product |
| 2 | **inhabit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | sparsely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **prohibit** |  | captaincy |  |  | mercantilist Spanish law from trade |  | with Panama  trade's southern neighbor | nom prohibition «communication transitive»: poss=agent under=place with=obl |
| 4 | **lack** |  |  | resources such gold and silver |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state 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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