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title: Duarte returned to the country in 1979 to enter politics after worki… — El Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: Duarte returned to the country in 1979 to enter politics after working on projects in Venezuela as an engineer. Who acts: Duarte. A sentence of Wikipedia's «El Salvador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# El Salvador, sentence 156

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From Wikipedia, [«El Salvador»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Duarte returned to the country in 1979 to enter politics after working on projects in Venezuela as an engineer.

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**Who acts:** Duarte · **What happens:** return, enter, work · **To what, where:** 1979, politics

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «El Salvador». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duarte), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:El_Salvador:156
# text = Duarte returned to the country in 1979 to enter politics after working on projects in Venezuela as an engineer.
1	Duarte	Duarte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1979	1979	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	obj	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	projects	project	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Venezuela	Venezuela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	engineer	engineer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Duarte |  |  | 1979 |  | to the country *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result |
| 2 | **enter** | to-infinitive | Duarte *not said here* | politics |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme politics=Destination |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | Duarte *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a engineer; on projects in Venezuela | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.theme PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent on project=Theme as engineer=Attribute |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «El Salvador», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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