San Salvador, sentence 299
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 government confiscated the house in 1922 to cover the owner's debts, and it then remained unoccupied for years.
Who acts: government, house · What happens: confiscate, cover, remain · To what, where: house, 1922, debts
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 (government, house), 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 government | det |
| 2 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 confiscated | nsubj |
| 3 | confiscated | confiscate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 confiscated | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1922 | case |
| 7 | 1922 | 1922 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 confiscated | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cover | mark |
| 9 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 confiscated | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 owner | det |
| 11 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 debts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 owner | case |
| 13 | debts | debt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cover | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remained | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 remained | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 remained | nsubj |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 remained | advmod |
| 18 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 confiscated | conj |
| 19 | unoccupied | unoccupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 remained | xcomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 remained | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 confiscated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confiscate | past | the government | the house | 1922 | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | cover | to-infinitive | the government not said here | the owner's debts | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme debt=Destination | ||||
| 3 | remain | past | house | then; year | unoccupied property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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