San Salvador, sentence 401
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.
In El Salvador, torrential rainfall caused significant damage along coastal cities in the country as rivers overflowed and swept away buildings.
Who acts: torrential rainfall · What happens: cause, overflow, sweep away · To what, where: significant damage, El, buildings
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 (torrential rainfall), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 El | case |
| 2 | El | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 overflowed | obl |
| 3 | Salvador | Salvador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 El | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rainfall | punct |
| 5 | torrential | torrential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rainfall | amod |
| 6 | rainfall | rainfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 overflowed | nsubj |
| 7 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rainfall | acl |
| 8 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 damage | amod |
| 9 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caused | obj |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 cities | case |
| 11 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cities | amod |
| 12 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 caused | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cities | nmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 rivers | case |
| 17 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 caused | obl |
| 18 | overflowed | overflow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 swept | cc |
| 20 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 overflowed | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 swept | advmod |
| 22 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 swept | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 overflowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | participle | torrential rainfall not said here | significant damage | along coastal cities in the country; as rivers | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition damage=Patient | |||
| 2 | overflow | past | torrential rainfall | El | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sweep away | past | torrential rainfall not said here | buildings | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme building=Trajectory |
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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