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title: Before the general elections on 5 November 2006, the National Assemb… — Nicaragua · tree and pragmatics
description: Before the general elections on 5 November 2006, the National Assembly passed a bill further restricting abortion in Nicaragua. Who acts: bill. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicaragua» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicaragua, sentence 155

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From Wikipedia, [«Nicaragua»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua), 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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Before the general elections on 5 November 2006, the National Assembly passed a bill further restricting abortion in Nicaragua.

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**Who acts:** bill · **What happens:** pass, restrict · **To what, where:** bill, general elections, abortion, Nicaragua

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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 (bill), 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:Nicaragua:155
# text = Before the general elections on 5 November 2006, the National Assembly passed a bill further restricting abortion in Nicaragua.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
7	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	further	further	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	restricting	restrict	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	abortion	abortion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Nicaragua	Nicaragua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past |  | a bill |  | the general elections on 5 November  2006 and the National Assembly |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bill=Theme before election=Destination |
| 2 | **restrict** | gerund | a bill *not said here* | abortion |  | Nicaragua |  | further *property* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer abortion=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, «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.

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