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title: In the same vein, Pedro de Alvarado, when organizing his second expe… — San Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: In the same vein, Pedro de Alvarado, when organizing his second expedition into the territory of Cuzcatlan, ordered his brother Gonzalo to name the town he founded San Salvador. Who acts: Christopher. A sentence of Wikipedia's «San Salvador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# San Salvador, sentence 17

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From Wikipedia, [«San Salvador»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_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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In the same vein, Pedro de Alvarado, when organizing his second expedition into the territory of Cuzcatlan, ordered his brother Gonzalo to name the town he founded San Salvador.

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**Who acts:** Christopher · **What happens:** organize, order, name, found · **To what, where:** second expedition, territory, brother, same vein, town, San

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «San Salvador». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christopher), 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:San_Salvador:17
# text = In the same vein, Pedro de Alvarado, when organizing his second expedition into the territory of Cuzcatlan, ordered his brother Gonzalo to name the town he founded San Salvador.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	vein	vein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Pedro	Pedro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Alvarado	Alvarado	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	organizing	organize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Cuzcatlan	Cuzcatlan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
21	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	Gonzalo	Gonzalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	Salvador	Salvador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **organize** | gerund |  | Pedro's second expedition |  | the territory of Cuzcatlan |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=Result |
| 2 | **order** | past |  |  | Cuzcatlan's brother | the same vein |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
| 3 | **name** | to-infinitive |  | the town |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 4 | **found** | past | Christopher | San |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent san=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, «San 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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