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title: The bird is marinated and then roasted with spices and hand-pulled. — El Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: The bird is marinated and then roasted with spices and hand-pulled. A sentence of Wikipedia's «El Salvador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# El Salvador, sentence 535

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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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The bird is marinated and then roasted with spices and hand-pulled.

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**What happens:** marinate, roast, pull · **To what, where:** bird

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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: 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:535
# text = The bird is marinated and then roasted with spices and hand-pulled.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	marinated	marinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marinate** | present · passive |  | the bird |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **roast** | participle |  |  |  |  | then | with spices | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with spice=Instrument |
| 3 | **pull** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | hand *compound* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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