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title: Other rivers are generally short and drain the Pacific lowlands or f… — El Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: Other rivers are generally short and drain the Pacific lowlands or flow from the central plateau through gaps in the southern mountain range to the Pacific. Who acts: Other rivers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «El Salvador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# El Salvador, sentence 242

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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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Other rivers are generally short and drain the Pacific lowlands or flow from the central plateau through gaps in the southern mountain range to the Pacific.

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**Who acts:** Other rivers · **What happens:** be, drain, flow · **To what, where:** Pacific lowlands, gaps, central plateau

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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 (Other rivers), 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:242
# text = Other rivers are generally short and drain the Pacific lowlands or flow from the central plateau through gaps in the southern mountain range to the Pacific.
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	drain	drain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	lowlands	lowland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	plateau	plateau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Other rivers |  |  |  |  | generally, short *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drain** | present | Other rivers *not said here* | the Pacific lowlands |  | gaps in the southern mountain range to the Pacific |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lowland=Source |
| 3 | **flow** | infinitive | Other rivers *not said here* |  |  | the central plateau |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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