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title: U.S. motives included differences over the proposed Nicaragua Canal,… — Nicaragua · tree and pragmatics
description: U.S. motives included differences over the proposed Nicaragua Canal, Nicaragua's potential to destabilize the region, and Zelaya's attempts to regulate foreign access to Nicaraguan natural resources. Who acts: U.S., attempts, Zelaya. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicaragua» with its dependency tree and
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# Nicaragua, sentence 79

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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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U.S. motives included differences over the proposed Nicaragua Canal, Nicaragua's potential to destabilize the region, and Zelaya's attempts to regulate foreign access to Nicaraguan natural resources.

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**Who acts:** U.S., attempts, Zelaya · **What happens:** motive, include, propose, destabilize, regulate, attempt · **To what, where:** included differences, proposed Nicaragua Canal, region, foreign access

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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 (U.S., attempts, Zelaya), 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:79
# text = U.S. motives included differences over the proposed Nicaragua Canal, Nicaragua's potential to destabilize the region, and Zelaya's attempts to regulate foreign access to Nicaraguan natural resources.
1	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	motives	motive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	included	include	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	differences	difference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
8	Nicaragua	Nicaragua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Nicaragua	Nicaragua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	potential	potential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	destabilize	destabilize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	csubj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	Zelaya	Zelaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	regulate	regulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
25	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	Nicaraguan	Nicaraguan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **motive** | present | U.S. | included differences |  | the proposed Nicaragua Canal |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **include** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **propose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **destabilize** | to-infinitive |  | the region |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent region=Patient |
| 5 | **regulate** | to-infinitive | Zelaya's attempts | foreign access |  |  |  | to Nicaraguan natural resources | tree rules |
| 6 | **attempt** |  | Zelaya |  |  |  |  |  | nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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