El Salvador, sentence 63
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.
Alvarado described the Cuzcatlec soldiers as having shields decorated with colourful exotic feathers, a vest-like armour made of three inch cotton which arrows could not penetrate, and long spears.
Who acts: Alvarado, arrows · What happens: describe, have, decorate, make, not penetrate · To what, where: Cuzcatlec soldiers, shields, like armour
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 (Alvarado, arrows), 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 | Alvarado | Alvarado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 described | nsubj |
| 2 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soldiers | det |
| 4 | Cuzcatlec | Cuzcatlec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 soldiers | compound |
| 5 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 described | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 having | mark |
| 7 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 described | advcl |
| 8 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 having | obj |
| 9 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 shields | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 feathers | case |
| 11 | colourful | colourful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feathers | amod |
| 12 | exotic | exotic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feathers | amod |
| 13 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 decorated | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 armour | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 armour | det |
| 16 | vest | vest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 like | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 vest | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 armour | amod |
| 19 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shields | conj |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 armour | acl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 cotton | case |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 cotton | nummod |
| 23 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cotton | compound |
| 24 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obl |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 penetrate | obj |
| 26 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 penetrate | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 penetrate | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 penetrate | advmod |
| 29 | penetrate | penetrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shields | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 spears | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 spears | cc |
| 32 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 spears | amod |
| 33 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 having | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | past | Alvarado | the Cuzcatlec soldiers | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | Alvarado not said here | shields and a like armour | long spears obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=Patient | |||
| 3 | decorate | participle | shields and a like armour not said here | with colourful exotic feathers | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with feather=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | a like armour not said here | of three inch cotton | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | not penetrate | could | arrows | shields and a like armour | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
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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