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title: Pulling from indigenous, colonial Spanish and African influences, a… — El Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: Pulling from indigenous, colonial Spanish and African influences, a composite population was formed as a result of intermarrying between the natives, European settlers, and enslaved Africans. Who acts: result. A sentence of Wikipedia's «El Salvador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# El Salvador, sentence 505

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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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Pulling from indigenous, colonial Spanish and African influences, a composite population was formed as a result of intermarrying between the natives, European settlers, and enslaved Africans.

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**Who acts:** result · **What happens:** pull, form, intermarry, enslave · **To what, where:** composite population

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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 (result), 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:505
# text = Pulling from indigenous, colonial Spanish and African influences, a composite population was formed as a result of intermarrying between the natives, European settlers, and enslaved Africans.
1	Pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
3	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	influences	influence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	composite	composite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	intermarrying	intermarry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	enslaved	enslave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	Africans	African	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | from indigenous colonial Spanish influences | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from influence=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **form** | past · passive |  | a composite population |  |  |  | as a result; enslaved Africans *conj* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Result as result=Attribute |
| 3 | **intermarry** | gerund | a result *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between the natives and European settlers | vn amalgamate-22.2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **enslave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «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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