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title: In El Salvador, torrential rainfall caused significant damage along… — San Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: In El Salvador, torrential rainfall caused significant damage along coastal cities in the country as rivers overflowed and swept away buildings. Who acts: torrential rainfall. A sentence of Wikipedia's «San Salvador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# San Salvador, sentence 401

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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 El Salvador, torrential rainfall caused significant damage along coastal cities in the country as rivers overflowed and swept away buildings.

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**Who acts:** torrential rainfall · **What happens:** cause, overflow, sweep away · **To what, where:** significant damage, El, buildings

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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 (torrential rainfall), 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:401
# text = In El Salvador, torrential rainfall caused significant damage along coastal cities in the country as rivers overflowed and swept away buildings.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	El	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
3	Salvador	Salvador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	torrential	torrential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
7	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
18	overflowed	overflow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | participle | torrential rainfall *not said here* | significant damage |  |  |  | along coastal cities in the country; as rivers | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition damage=Patient |
| 2 | **overflow** | past | torrential rainfall |  |  | El |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sweep away** | past | torrential rainfall *not said here* | buildings |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme building=Trajectory |

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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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