San Salvador, sentence 185
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.
The project started in 1997 with Phase I, the construction of the two tallest towers.
Who acts: project · What happens: start, construct · To what, where: 1997, two tallest towers
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 (project), 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 | 2 project | det |
| 2 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1997 | case |
| 5 | 1997 | 1997 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 started | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Phase | case |
| 7 | Phase | phase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 started | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Phase | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 construction | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 construction | det |
| 11 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 I | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 towers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 towers | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 towers | nummod |
| 15 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 towers | amod |
| 16 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 construction | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the project | 1997 | with Phase I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with phase=Subeventuality | |||
| 2 | construct | the two tallest towers | nom construction «act transitive»: of=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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