El Salvador, sentence 68
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 retreated and sent Mexican messengers to demand that the Cuzcatlec warriors return the stolen weapons and surrender to their opponent's king.
Who acts: Alvarado, Cuzcatlec warriors · What happens: retreat, send, demand, return, steal · To what, where: Mexican messengers, stolen weapons, king
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, Cuzcatlec warriors), 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 retreated | nsubj |
| 2 | retreated | retreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sent | cc |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 retreated | conj |
| 5 | Mexican | Mexican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 messengers | amod |
| 6 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 demand | mark |
| 8 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 return | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 warriors | det |
| 11 | Cuzcatlec | Cuzcatlec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 warriors | compound |
| 12 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 return | nsubj |
| 13 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 demand | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 weapons | det |
| 15 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 weapons | amod |
| 16 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 return | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 surrender | cc |
| 18 | surrender | surrender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 weapons | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 opponent | nmod:poss |
| 21 | opponent | opponent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 king | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 opponent | case |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 return | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 retreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retreat | past | Alvarado | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | send | past | Alvarado not said here | Mexican messengers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | ||||
| 3 | demand speech: request | to-infinitive | Alvarado not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | return | present | the Cuzcatlec warriors | the stolen weapons and surrender | Alvarado's opponent's king | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 5 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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