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title: The government confiscated the house in 1922 to cover the owner's de… — San Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: The government confiscated the house in 1922 to cover the owner's debts, and it then remained unoccupied for years. Who acts: government, house. A sentence of Wikipedia's «San Salvador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# San Salvador, sentence 299

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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 government confiscated the house in 1922 to cover the owner's debts, and it then remained unoccupied for years.

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**Who acts:** government, house · **What happens:** confiscate, cover, remain · **To what, where:** house, 1922, debts

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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 (government, house), 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:299
# text = The government confiscated the house in 1922 to cover the owner's debts, and it then remained unoccupied for years.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	confiscated	confiscate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1922	1922	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	debts	debt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	unoccupied	unoccupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confiscate** | past | the government | the house |  | 1922 |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* | the owner's debts |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme debt=Destination |
| 3 | **remain** | past | house |  |  |  | then; year | unoccupied *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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, «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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