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title: The project started in 1997 with Phase I, the construction of the tw… — San Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: The project started in 1997 with Phase I, the construction of the two tallest towers. Who acts: project. A sentence of Wikipedia's «San Salvador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# San Salvador, sentence 185

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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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The project started in 1997 with Phase I, the construction of the two tallest towers.

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**Who acts:** project · **What happens:** start, construct · **To what, where:** 1997, two tallest towers

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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 (project), 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:185
# text = The project started in 1997 with Phase I, the construction of the two tallest towers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1997	1997	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Phase	phase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | the project |  |  | 1997 |  | with Phase  I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with phase=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **construct** |  |  | the two tallest towers |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=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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