San Salvador, sentence 25
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 town changed location twice, in 1528 and 1545.
Who acts: town · What happens: change · To what, where: location, 1528
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 (town), 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 town | det |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obj |
| 5 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 changed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 1528 | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1528 | case |
| 8 | 1528 | 1528 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 changed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 1545 | cc |
| 10 | 1545 | 1545 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 1528 | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | the town | location | 1528 | twice property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent location=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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