San Salvador, sentence 23
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.
Under the orders of conquistador Pedro de Alvarado, his associates Gonzalo de Alvarado and Diego de Holguín occupied the empty settlement and began to develop it.
Who acts: associates · What happens: occupy, begin, develop, order · To what, where: empty settlement, orders, settlement, conquistador
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 (associates), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 orders | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 orders | det |
| 3 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 occupied | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 conquistador | case |
| 5 | conquistador | conquistador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 orders | nmod |
| 6 | Pedro | Pedro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 conquistador | appos |
| 7 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Pedro | flat |
| 8 | Alvarado | Alvarado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Pedro | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 associates | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 associates | nmod:poss |
| 11 | associates | associate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 occupied | nsubj |
| 12 | Gonzalo | Gonzalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 occupied | nsubj |
| 13 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Gonzalo | flat |
| 14 | Alvarado | Alvarado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Gonzalo | flat |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Diego | cc |
| 16 | Diego | Diego | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Gonzalo | conj |
| 17 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Gonzalo | flat |
| 18 | Holguín | Holguín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Gonzalo | flat |
| 19 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 settlement | det |
| 21 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 settlement | amod |
| 22 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 occupied | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 began | cc |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 occupied | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 develop | mark |
| 26 | develop | develop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 began | xcomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 develop | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | past | Pedro's associates | the empty settlement | the orders of conquistador | Gonzalo and Diego nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus settlement=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | begin | past | Pedro's associates not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | develop | to-infinitive | Pedro's associates not said here | settlement | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||||
| 4 | order | conquistador | nom order «communication 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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