--- title: El Salvador lies in the isthmus of Central America between latitudes… — El Salvador · tree and pragmatics description: El Salvador lies in the isthmus of Central America between latitudes 13° and 15°N, and longitudes 87° and 91°W. It stretches 168 mi from west-northwest to east-southeast and 88 mi north to south, with a total area of 21,041 km2. Who acts: El, 91. A sentence of Wikipedia's «El Salvador» with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/El_Salvador/232/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [El Salvador](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/El_Salvador/) / 232 # El Salvador, sentence 232 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. El Salvador lies in the isthmus of Central America between latitudes 13° and 15°N, and longitudes 87° and 91°W. It stretches 168 mi from west-northwest to east-southeast and 88 mi north to south, with a total area of 21,041 km2. **Who acts:** El, 91 · **What happens:** lie, stretch · **To what, where:** isthmus, 168 mi, west northwest 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 (El, 91), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:El_Salvador:232 # text = El Salvador lies in the isthmus of Central America between latitudes 13° and 15°N, and longitudes 87° and 91°W. It stretches 168 mi from west-northwest to east-southeast and 88 mi north to south, with a total area of 21,041 km2. 1 El El PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Salvador Salvador PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 isthmus isthmus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 Central Central PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 9 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 between between ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 latitudes latitude NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 12 13 13 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ° ° SYM SYM _ 12 flat _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ° ° SYM SYM _ 17 case _ SpaceAfter=No 17 N N PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 longitudes longitude NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 87 87 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ° ° SYM SYM _ 3 advcl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 91 91 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ° ° SYM SYM _ 26 case _ SpaceAfter=No 26 W. W. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 stretches stretch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 29 168 168 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 mi mi NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 northwest northwest NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 southeast southeast NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 88 88 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 mi mi NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 42 north north ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 south south ADV RB _ 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 21,041 21,041 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 49 nmod _ _ 52 km2 km2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 51 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | El | | | the isthmus of Central America | | between latitudes | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in isthmus=Location | | 2 | **stretch** | present | 91 ° W. | 168 mi and a total area of 21,041 | | west northwest to east southeast and 88 mi | | change *nsubj* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mi=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 231](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/El_Salvador/231/) - next →: [sentence 233](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/El_Salvador/233/) - ↑ back to [El Salvador](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/El_Salvador/)