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San Salvador, sentence 17

From Wikipedia, «San 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.

In the same vein, Pedro de Alvarado, when organizing his second expedition into the territory of Cuzcatlan, ordered his brother Gonzalo to name the town he founded San Salvador.

Who acts: Christopher · What happens: organize, order, name, found · To what, where: second expedition, territory, brother, same vein, town, San

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «San Salvador». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christopher), 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

casedetamodoblpunctapposflatflatpunctadvmodaclnmod:possamodobjcasedetoblcasenmodpunctnmod:possobjapposmarkadvcldetobjnsubjacl:relclobjflatpunctrootInADPtheDETsameADJveinNOUN,PUNCTPedroPROPNdePROPNAlvaradoPROPN,PUNCTwhenADVorganizingVERBhisPRONsecondADJexpeditionNOUNintoADPtheDETterritoryNOUNofADPCuzcatlanPROPN,PUNCTorderedVERBhisPRONbrotherNOUNGonzaloPROPNtoPARTnameVERBtheDETtownNOUNhePRONfoundedVERBSanPROPNSalvadorPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_4 veincase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 veindet
3samesameADJDegree=Pos4 veinamod
4veinveinNOUNNumber=Sing21 orderedobl
5,,PUNCT_6 Pedropunct
6PedroPedroPROPNNumber=Sing4 veinappos
7dedePROPNNumber=Sing6 Pedroflat
8AlvaradoAlvaradoPROPNNumber=Sing6 Pedroflat
9,,PUNCT_11 organizingpunct
10whenwhenADVPronType=Int11 organizingadvmod
11organizingorganizeVERBVerbForm=Ger4 veinacl
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 expeditionnmod:poss
13secondsecondADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord14 expeditionamod
14expeditionexpeditionNOUNNumber=Sing11 organizingobj
15intointoADP_17 territorycase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 territorydet
17territoryterritoryNOUNNumber=Sing11 organizingobl
18ofofADP_19 Cuzcatlancase
19CuzcatlanCuzcatlanPROPNNumber=Sing17 territorynmod
20,,PUNCT_4 veinpunct
21orderedorderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 brothernmod:poss
23brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing21 orderedobj
24GonzaloGonzaloPROPNNumber=Sing23 brotherappos
25totoPART_26 namemark
26namenameVERBVerbForm=Inf21 orderedadvcl
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 towndet
28towntownNOUNNumber=Sing26 nameobj
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 foundednsubj
30foundedfoundVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 townacl:relcl
31SanSanPROPNNumber=Sing30 foundedobj
32SalvadorSalvadorPROPNNumber=Sing31 Sanflat
33..PUNCT_21 orderedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1organizegerundPedro's second expeditionthe territory of Cuzcatlanvn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=Result
2orderpastCuzcatlan's brotherthe same veinvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
3nameto-infinitivethe townvn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme
4foundpastChristopherSanvn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent san=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «San Salvador», 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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