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title: Cities such as León and Granada abound in colonial architecture; fou… — Nicaragua · tree and pragmatics
description: Cities such as León and Granada abound in colonial architecture; founded in 1524, Granada is the oldest colonial city in the Americas. Who acts: Cities, Granada. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicaragua» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicaragua, sentence 210

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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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Cities such as León and Granada abound in colonial architecture; founded in 1524, Granada is the oldest colonial city in the Americas.

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**Who acts:** Cities, Granada · **What happens:** abound, found, be · **To what, where:** colonial architecture, 1524, oldest colonial city, Americas

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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 (Cities, Granada), 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:210
# text = Cities such as León and Granada abound in colonial architecture; founded in 1524, Granada is the oldest colonial city in the Americas.
1	Cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	León	León	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Granada	Granada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	abound	abound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1524	1524	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	Granada	Granada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
20	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abound** | present | Cities such León and Granada |  |  | colonial architecture |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in architecture=Location |
| 2 | **found** | participle |  |  |  | 1524 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Granada | the oldest colonial city |  | the Americas |  |  | tree rules |

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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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