San Salvador, sentence 270
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.
It was designed by the French architect Daniel Beylard, with construction starting on 3 November 1911.
Who acts: French architect, construction · What happens: design, start · To what, where: square, 3
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 (French architect, construction), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 designed | aux:pass |
| 3 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 architect | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 architect | det |
| 6 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 architect | amod |
| 7 | architect | architect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 designed | obl |
| 8 | Daniel | Daniel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 architect | appos |
| 9 | Beylard | Beylard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Daniel | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 construction | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 construction | case |
| 12 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 designed | parataxis |
| 13 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 construction | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 3 | case |
| 15 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 starting | obl |
| 16 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 3 | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | 1911 | 1911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 3 | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 designed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | design | past · passive | the French architect | square | construction parataxis | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result | |||
| 2 | start | gerund | construction not said here | 3 November | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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