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title: It was designed by the French architect Daniel Beylard, with constru… — San Salvador · tree and pragmatics
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# San Salvador, sentence 270

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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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It was designed by the French architect Daniel Beylard, with construction starting on 3 November 1911.

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**Who acts:** French architect, construction · **What happens:** design, start · **To what, where:** square, 3

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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 (French architect, construction), 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:270
# text = It was designed by the French architect Daniel Beylard, with construction starting on 3 November 1911.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	architect	architect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	Beylard	Beylard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
13	starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
16	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	1911	1911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **design** | past · passive | the French architect | square |  |  |  | construction *parataxis* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
| 2 | **start** | gerund | construction *not said here* |  |  | 3  November |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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