El Salvador, sentence 52
From Wikipedia, «El Salvador», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The first indigenous people to have contact with the Spanish were the Lenca of eastern El Salvador.
Who acts: first indigenous people · What happens: have, be · To what, where: contact, Lenca
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «El Salvador». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first indigenous people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 people | amod |
| 3 | indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Lenca | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 people | acl |
| 7 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Spanish | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Spanish | det |
| 10 | Spanish | Spanish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 contact | nmod |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Lenca | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lenca | det |
| 13 | Lenca | Lenca | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 El | case |
| 15 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 El | amod |
| 16 | El | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Lenca | nmod |
| 17 | Salvador | Salvador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 El | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Lenca | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | to-infinitive | the first indigenous people not said here | contact | with the Spanish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contact=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the first indigenous people | the Lenca | of eastern El | tree rules |
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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