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title: Their food came primarily from hunting and gathering, but also fishi… — Nicaragua · tree and pragmatics
description: Their food came primarily from hunting and gathering, but also fishing and slash-and-burn agriculture. Who acts: food, fishing. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicaragua» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicaragua, sentence 31

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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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Their food came primarily from hunting and gathering, but also fishing and slash-and-burn agriculture.

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**Who acts:** food, fishing · **What happens:** come, hunt, gather, agriculture

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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 (food, fishing), 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:31
# text = Their food came primarily from hunting and gathering, but also fishing and slash-and-burn agriculture.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
12	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	slash	slash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | people's food |  |  |  |  | primarily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | gerund | people's food *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gather** | gerund | people's food *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **agriculture** |  | fishing and slash |  |  |  |  |  | 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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