--- title: In 1941, during the Second World War, Nicaragua declared war on Japa… — Nicaragua · tree and pragmatics description: In 1941, during the Second World War, Nicaragua declared war on Japan (8 December), Germany (11 December), Italy (11 December), Bulgaria (19 December), Hungary (19 December) and Romania (19 December). Who acts: Nicaragua. 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In 1941, during the Second World War, Nicaragua declared war on Japan (8 December), Germany (11 December), Italy (11 December), Bulgaria (19 December), Hungary (19 December) and Romania (19 December). **Who acts:** Nicaragua · **What happens:** declare · **To what, where:** war, 1941 This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nicaragua». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nicaragua), 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:Nicaragua:101 # text = In 1941, during the Second World War, Nicaragua declared war on Japan (8 December), Germany (11 December), Italy (11 December), Bulgaria (19 December), Hungary (19 December) and Romania (19 December). 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1941 1941 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 during during ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 Second Second ADJ NNP Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 7 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 Nicaragua Nicaragua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ _ 17 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Germany Germany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 appos _ _ 23 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Italy Italy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nmod _ _ 29 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Bulgaria Bulgaria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 19 19 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 appos _ _ 35 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 Hungary Hungary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 39 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 19 19 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 appos _ _ 41 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 Romania Romania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 45 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 19 19 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nmod:unmarked _ _ 47 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Nicaragua | war | | 1941 during the Second World War | | on Japan; 8 December *obl*; Germany 11 December Bulgaria 19 December and Italy *obl* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute | 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, «Nicaragua», 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 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nicaragua/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nicaragua/102/) - ↑ back to [Nicaragua](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nicaragua/)