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title: On 4 October 2005, severe rains resulted in dangerous flooding and l… — El Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: On 4 October 2005, severe rains resulted in dangerous flooding and landslides, which caused at least 50 deaths. Who acts: severe rains, dangerous flooding. A sentence of Wikipedia's «El Salvador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# El Salvador, sentence 278

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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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On 4 October 2005, severe rains resulted in dangerous flooding and landslides, which caused at least 50 deaths.

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**Who acts:** severe rains, dangerous flooding · **What happens:** result, cause · **To what, where:** dangerous flooding, 50 deaths

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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 (severe rains, dangerous flooding), 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:278
# text = On 4 October 2005, severe rains resulted in dangerous flooding and landslides, which caused at least 50 deaths.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rains	rain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	flooding	flooding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	landslides	landslide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	nmod	_	_
19	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **result** | participle | severe rains |  |  | dangerous flooding and landslides | october |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flooding=Location |
| 2 | **cause** | past | dangerous flooding and landslides | 50 deaths |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient |

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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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