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title: Nicaragua is referred to as "the land of lakes and volcanoes" due to… — Nicaragua · tree and pragmatics
description: Nicaragua is referred to as "the land of lakes and volcanoes" due to the number of lagoons and lakes, and the chain of volcanoes that runs from the north to the south along the country's Pacific side. Who acts: chain. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicaragua» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicaragua, sentence 392

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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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Nicaragua is referred to as "the land of lakes and volcanoes" due to the number of lagoons and lakes, and the chain of volcanoes that runs from the north to the south along the country's Pacific side.

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**Who acts:** chain · **What happens:** refer, run · **To what, where:** Nicaragua, north

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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 (chain), 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:392
# text = Nicaragua is referred to as "the land of lakes and volcanoes" due to the number of lagoons and lakes, and the chain of volcanoes that runs from the north to the south along the country's Pacific side.
1	Nicaragua	Nicaragua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
14	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	lagoons	lagoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	along	along	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present · passive |  | Nicaragua |  |  |  | as the land of lakes and volcanoes; the chain of volcanoes *conj* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | present | the chain of volcanoes |  |  | the north |  | to the south; along the country's Pacific side | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent from north=Initial\_Location to south=Destination along side=Trajectory |

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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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