San Salvador, sentence 250
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.
To finish the project, legislation was passed that collected one colon for every quintal of coffee exported.
Who acts: that · What happens: finish, pass, collect, export · To what, where: project, legislation, one colon, coffee
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 (that), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 finish | mark |
| 2 | finish | finish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 project | det |
| 4 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 finish | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 passed | punct |
| 6 | legislation | legislation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 passed | aux:pass |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 finish | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 collected | nsubj |
| 10 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 passed | ccomp |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 colon | nummod |
| 12 | colon | colon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 collected | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 quintal | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 quintal | det |
| 15 | quintal | quintal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 collected | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 coffee | case |
| 17 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quintal | nmod |
| 18 | exported | export | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 coffee | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 finish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | to-infinitive | the project | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality project=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pass | past · passive | legislation | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | collect | past | that | one colon | for every quintal of coffee | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colon=Theme | |||
| 4 | export | participle | coffee not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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