--- title: Following a brief civil war in 1948, Costa Rica adopted its current… — Costa Rica · tree and pragmatics description: Following a brief civil war in 1948, Costa Rica adopted its current constitution in 1949, which granted universal suffrage, provided various social, economic, and educational guarantees for all citizens, and permanently abolished the army, becoming one of the few sovereign nations without a standing --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Costa_Rica/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Costa Rica](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Costa_Rica/) / 8 # Costa Rica, sentence 8 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. Following a brief civil war in 1948, Costa Rica adopted its current constitution in 1949, which granted universal suffrage, provided various social, economic, and educational guarantees for all citizens, and permanently abolished the army, becoming one of the few sovereign nations without a standing military. **Who acts:** Costa, educational guarantees, war · **What happens:** follow, adopt, grant, provide, abolish, become · **To what, where:** current constitution, 1949, universal suffrage, army, one 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 (Costa, educational guarantees, war), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Costa_Rica:8 # text = Following a brief civil war in 1948, Costa Rica adopted its current constitution in 1949, which granted universal suffrage, provided various social, economic, and educational guarantees for all citizens, and permanently abolished the army, becoming one of the few sovereign nations without a standing military. 1 Following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 brief brief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 civil civil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 1948 1948 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 Costa Costa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 Rica Rica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 adopted adopt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 current current ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 constitution constitution NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 1949 1949 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 granted grant VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 20 universal universal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 suffrage suffrage NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 provided provide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 various various ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 social social ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 economic economic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 30 educational educational ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 guarantees guarantee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 citizens citizen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 permanently permanently ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 abolished abolish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 becoming become VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 43 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 obj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 47 sovereign sovereign NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ _ 49 without without ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 52 amod _ _ 52 military military NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **adopt** | past | Costa | war's current constitution | | 1949 | | follow a brief civil war in 1948 | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Theme | | 3 | **grant** | past | | universal suffrage | | | | which *nsubj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent suffrage=Theme | | 4 | **provide** | past | | | | | | social *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition | | 5 | **abolish** | past | educational guarantees for all citizens | the army | | | | permanently *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | | 6 | **become** | gerund | educational guarantees for all citizens *not said here* | one of the few sovereign nations | | | | without a standing military | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient one=Result | | 7 | **stand** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **constitute** | | war | | | | | | nom constitution «communication 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Costa_Rica/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Costa_Rica/9/) - ↑ back to [Costa Rica](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Costa_Rica/)