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title: Mosquitia remained semi-independent until the Nicaragua Crisis in 18… — Nicaragua · tree and pragmatics
description: Mosquitia remained semi-independent until the Nicaragua Crisis in 1894, when it was militarily occupied by orders of José Santos Zelaya, President of Nicaragua, who later renamed the territory "Zelaya Department". Who acts: Mosquitia, orders, José Santos. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicaragua» with i
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# Nicaragua, sentence 76

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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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Mosquitia remained semi-independent until the Nicaragua Crisis in 1894, when it was militarily occupied by orders of José Santos Zelaya, President of Nicaragua, who later renamed the territory "Zelaya Department".

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**Who acts:** Mosquitia, orders, José Santos · **What happens:** remain, occupy, rename, order · **To what, where:** 1894, crisis, territory, José Santos

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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 (Mosquitia, orders, José Santos), 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:76
# text = Mosquitia remained semi-independent until the Nicaragua Crisis in 1894, when it was militarily occupied by orders of José Santos Zelaya, President of Nicaragua, who later renamed the territory "Zelaya Department".
1	Mosquitia	Mosquitia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	semi-independent	semi-independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	until	until	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Nicaragua	Nicaragua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Crisis	Crisis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1894	1894	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	militarily	militarily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	José	José	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Santos	Santos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	Zelaya	Zelaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Nicaragua	Nicaragua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	renamed	rename	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Zelaya	Zelaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Mosquitia |  |  | 1894 | until the Nicaragua Crisis | semi-independent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1894=Location |
| 2 | **occupy** | past · passive | orders of José Santos | crisis |  |  |  | militarily *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **rename** | past | José Santos | the territory |  |  |  | late *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Theme |
| 4 | **order** |  |  | José Santos |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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