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title: As with other former colonies, El Salvador was considered a mono-exp… — El Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: As with other former colonies, El Salvador was considered a mono-export economy (an economy that depended heavily on one type of export) for many years. Who acts: economy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «El Salvador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# El Salvador, sentence 355

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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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As with other former colonies, El Salvador was considered a mono-export economy (an economy that depended heavily on one type of export) for many years.

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**Who acts:** economy · **What happens:** consider, depend, type · **To what, where:** El, export

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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 (economy), 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:355
# text = As with other former colonies, El Salvador was considered a mono-export economy (an economy that depended heavily on one type of export) for many years.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	El	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	Salvador	Salvador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	mono	mono	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	export	export	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	depended	depend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	export	export	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past · passive |  | El |  |  | year | as other former colonies; a export economy *xcomp* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **depend** | past | a economy |  |  |  |  | on one type of export; heavily *property* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on type=Theme |
| 3 | **type** |  |  | export |  |  |  |  | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=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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