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title: The mountain ranges and central plateau, covering 85% of the land, c… — El Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: The mountain ranges and central plateau, covering 85% of the land, comprise the interior highlands. Who acts: mountain ranges. A sentence of Wikipedia's «El Salvador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# El Salvador, sentence 257

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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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The mountain ranges and central plateau, covering 85% of the land, comprise the interior highlands.

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**Who acts:** mountain ranges · **What happens:** cover, comprise · **To what, where:** interior highlands

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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 (mountain ranges), 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:257
# text = The mountain ranges and central plateau, covering 85% of the land, comprise the interior highlands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ranges	range	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	plateau	plateau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
9	85	85	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	comprise	comprise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	interior	interior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	highlands	highland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | gerund | the mountain ranges and central plateau *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Destination |
| 2 | **comprise** | infinitive | the mountain ranges and central plateau | the interior highlands |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme highland=Pivot |

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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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