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title: There is a growing expatriate community, the majority of whom move f… — Nicaragua · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a growing expatriate community, the majority of whom move for business, investment or retirement from across the world, such as from the United States, Canada, Taiwan, and European countries; the majority have settled in Managua, Granada and San Juan del Sur. Who acts: growing expatriate co
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# Nicaragua, sentence 421

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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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There is a growing expatriate community, the majority of whom move for business, investment or retirement from across the world, such as from the United States, Canada, Taiwan, and European countries; the majority have settled in Managua, Granada and San Juan del Sur.

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**Who acts:** growing expatriate community · **What happens:** be, grow, move, settle · **To what, where:** European countries, world, majority, Managua

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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 (growing expatriate community), 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:421
# text = There is a growing expatriate community, the majority of whom move for business, investment or retirement from across the world, such as from the United States, Canada, Taiwan, and European countries; the majority have settled in Managua, Granada and San Juan del Sur.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
5	expatriate	expatriate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
12	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	retirement	retirement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	across	across	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Managua	Managua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	Granada	Granada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
49	Juan	Juan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	del	Del	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	Sur	Sur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a growing expatriate community |  |  | there |  | the majority *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | present |  | European countries |  | the world such the United States and Canada and Taiwan |  | of the majority; for business and investment or retirement | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme of whom=Source from world=Trajectory |
| 4 | **settle** | present · perfect · passive |  | the majority |  | Managua and Granada and San and del Sur |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in managua=Location |

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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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