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title: In the last week of May, thousands who accuse Mr. Ortega and his wif… — Nicaragua · tree and pragmatics
description: In the last week of May, thousands who accuse Mr. Ortega and his wife of acting like dictators joined in resuming anti-government rallies after attempted peace talks have remained unresolved. Who acts: thousands, wife. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicaragua» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicaragua, sentence 174

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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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In the last week of May, thousands who accuse Mr. Ortega and his wife of acting like dictators joined in resuming anti-government rallies after attempted peace talks have remained unresolved.

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**Who acts:** thousands, wife · **What happens:** accuse, act, join, resume, attempt, remain · **To what, where:** Ortega, dictators, anti-government rallies, thousands

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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 (thousands, wife), 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:174
# text = In the last week of May, thousands who accuse Mr. Ortega and his wife of acting like dictators joined in resuming anti-government rallies after attempted peace talks have remained unresolved.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	accuse	accuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Ortega	Ortega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	acting	act	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	dictators	dictator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	resuming	resume	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	anti-government	anti-government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	rallies	rally	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
27	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	talks	talk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
31	unresolved	unresolved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accuse** | present | thousands | Ortega  Mr. and Ortega's wife |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ortega=Theme |
| 2 | **act** | gerund | Ortega's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like dictators | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like dictator=Attribute |
| 3 | **join** | participle |  | dictators *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **resume** | gerund |  | anti-government rallies |  |  | after attempted peace talks |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rally=Eventuality |
| 5 | **attempt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **remain** | present · perfect · passive |  | thousands |  |  | may; week | unresolved *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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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