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title: In 1979, Miguel D'Escoto Brockman, a priest who had embraced Liberat… — Nicaragua · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1979, Miguel D'Escoto Brockman, a priest who had embraced Liberation Theology, served in the government as foreign minister when the Sandinistas came to power. Who acts: priest, Sandinistas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicaragua» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicaragua, sentence 493

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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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In 1979, Miguel D'Escoto Brockman, a priest who had embraced Liberation Theology, served in the government as foreign minister when the Sandinistas came to power.

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**Who acts:** priest, Sandinistas · **What happens:** embrace, serve, come · **To what, where:** Liberation Theology, power, 1979

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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 (priest, Sandinistas), 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:493
# text = In 1979, Miguel D'Escoto Brockman, a priest who had embraced Liberation Theology, served in the government as foreign minister when the Sandinistas came to power.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1979	1979	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Miguel	Miguel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	D'Escoto	D'Escoto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	Brockman	Brockman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	Liberation	Liberation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Theology	theology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:agent	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
23	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	26	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Sandinistas	Sandinistas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embrace** | past · perfect | a priest | Liberation Theology |  |  |  | as foreign minister | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theology=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **serve** | participle | a priest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the government *obl:agent* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | the Sandinistas |  |  | power |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to power=Initial\_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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