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title: To finish the project, legislation was passed that collected one col… — San Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: To finish the project, legislation was passed that collected one colon for every quintal of coffee exported. Who acts: that. A sentence of Wikipedia's «San Salvador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# San Salvador, sentence 250

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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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To finish the project, legislation was passed that collected one colon for every quintal of coffee exported.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** finish, pass, collect, export · **To what, where:** project, legislation, one colon, coffee

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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 (that), 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:250
# text = To finish the project, legislation was passed that collected one colon for every quintal of coffee exported.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	finish	finish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	legislation	legislation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	colon	colon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	quintal	quintal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	exported	export	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | to-infinitive |  | the project |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality project=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pass** | past · passive |  | legislation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **collect** | past | that | one colon |  |  |  | for every quintal of coffee | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colon=Theme |
| 4 | **export** | participle |  | coffee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «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, «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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