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title: Additionally, there were trade-related colonies in Nicaragua set up… — Nicaragua · tree and pragmatics
description: Additionally, there were trade-related colonies in Nicaragua set up by the Aztecs starting in the 14th century. Who acts: related colonies, Aztecs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicaragua» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicaragua, sentence 38

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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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Additionally, there were trade-related colonies in Nicaragua set up by the Aztecs starting in the 14th century.

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**Who acts:** related colonies, Aztecs · **What happens:** be, set up, start

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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 (related colonies, Aztecs), 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:38
# text = Additionally, there were trade-related colonies in Nicaragua set up by the Aztecs starting in the 14th century.
1	Additionally	additionally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Nicaragua	Nicaragua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Aztecs	Aztec	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	14th	14th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | related colonies in Nicaragua *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set up** | past | related colonies in Nicaragua |  |  |  |  | by the Aztecs; additionally *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by aztec=Destination |
| 3 | **start** | gerund | the Aztecs *not said here* |  |  |  | century |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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