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title: They called their territory Kuskatan, a Nawat word meaning "The Plac… — El Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: They called their territory Kuskatan, a Nawat word meaning "The Place of Precious Jewels", back-formed into Classical Nahuatl Cōzcatlān, and commonly known as Cuzcatlan. Who acts: people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «El Salvador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# El Salvador, sentence 41

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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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They called their territory Kuskatan, a Nawat word meaning "The Place of Precious Jewels", back-formed into Classical Nahuatl Cōzcatlān, and commonly known as Cuzcatlan.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** call, form, know · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people), 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:41
# text = They called their territory Kuskatan, a Nawat word meaning "The Place of Precious Jewels", back-formed into Classical Nahuatl Cōzcatlān, and commonly known as Cuzcatlan.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Kuskatan	Kuskatan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Nawat	Nawat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Place	Place	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Classical	classical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Nahuatl	Nahuatl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl:agent	_	_
25	Cōzcatlān	Cōzcatlān	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Cuzcatlan	Cuzcatlan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | people |  |  |  |  | Kuskatan  people's territory *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **form** | participle | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Classical Nahuatl *obl:agent* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | participle | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as Cuzcatlan; commonly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as cuzcatlan=Attribute |

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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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