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title: There is a small Afro-Salvadoran group that is 0.13% of the total po… — El Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a small Afro-Salvadoran group that is 0.13% of the total population, with Blacks, among other races, having been prevented from immigrating via government policies in the early 20th century. Who acts: small Afro Salvadoran group. A sentence of Wikipedia's «El Salvador» with its dependency t
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# El Salvador, sentence 438

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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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There is a small Afro-Salvadoran group that is 0.13% of the total population, with Blacks, among other races, having been prevented from immigrating via government policies in the early 20th century.

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**Who acts:** small Afro Salvadoran group · **What happens:** be, prevent, immigrate

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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 (small Afro Salvadoran group), 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:438
# text = There is a small Afro-Salvadoran group that is 0.13% of the total population, with Blacks, among other races, having been prevented from immigrating via government policies in the early 20th century.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	Afro	afro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Salvadoran	Salvadoran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	0.13	0.13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Blacks	black	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
28	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	immigrating	immigrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	via	via	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	policies	policy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	37	amod	_	_
37	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | a small Afro Salvadoran group and other races |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **prevent** | gerund · perfect · passive | a small Afro Salvadoran group and other races *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **immigrate** | gerund | a small Afro Salvadoran group and other races *not said here* |  |  |  | century | via government policies | tree rules |

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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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