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title: Since Central America is a major subduction zone, Nicaragua hosts mo… — Nicaragua · tree and pragmatics
description: Since Central America is a major subduction zone, Nicaragua hosts most of the Central American Volcanic Arc. Who acts: Nicaragua. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicaragua» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicaragua, sentence 192

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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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Since Central America is a major subduction zone, Nicaragua hosts most of the Central American Volcanic Arc.

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**Who acts:** Nicaragua · **What happens:** be, host · **To what, where:** major subduction zone, most

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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 (Nicaragua), 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:192
# text = Since Central America is a major subduction zone, Nicaragua hosts most of the Central American Volcanic Arc.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
3	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	subduction	subduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Nicaragua	Nicaragua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hosts	host	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Volcanic	Volcanic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Arc	Arc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a major subduction zone |  |  | since Central America |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **host** | present | Nicaragua | most of the American Volcanic Arc  Central |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Beneficiary |

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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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