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title: Managua's location between the rival cities of León and Granada made… — Managua · tree and pragmatics
description: Managua's location between the rival cities of León and Granada made it a logical compromise site. Who acts: location. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Managua» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Managua, sentence 19

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From Wikipedia, [«Managua»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managua), 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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Managua's location between the rival cities of León and Granada made it a logical compromise site.

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**Who acts:** location · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** city

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Managua». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (location), 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:Managua:19
# text = Managua's location between the rival cities of León and Granada made it a logical compromise site.
1	Managua	Managua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	rival	rival	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	León	León	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Granada	Granada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	logical	logical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	compromise	compromise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Managua's location between the rival cities of León and Granada | city |  |  |  | a logical compromise site *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary site=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, «Managua», 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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