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title: El Salvador lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire and is subject to si… — El Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: El Salvador lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire and is subject to significant tectonic activity, including frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity. Who acts: El. A sentence of Wikipedia's «El Salvador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# El Salvador, sentence 279

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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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El Salvador lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire and is subject to significant tectonic activity, including frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity.

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**Who acts:** El · **What happens:** lie, be, include · **To what, where:** Pacific Ring

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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 (El), 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:279
# text = El Salvador lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire and is subject to significant tectonic activity, including frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity.
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	along	along	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	subject	subject	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	tectonic	tectonic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	case	_	_
19	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | El |  |  | the Pacific Ring of Fire |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along ring=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | El *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to significant tectonic activity and frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity; subject *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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