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title: The city's average elevation is 659 m above sea level, but ranges fr… — San Salvador · tree and pragmatics
description: The city's average elevation is 659 m above sea level, but ranges from a highest point of 1186 m above sea level to a lowest point of 596 m above sea level. Who acts: average elevation, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «San Salvador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# San Salvador, sentence 93

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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 city's average elevation is 659 m above sea level, but ranges from a highest point of 1186 m above sea level to a lowest point of 596 m above sea level.

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**Who acts:** average elevation, city · **What happens:** be, elevate, point · **To what, where:** sea level, 1186 m, 596 m

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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 (average elevation, city), 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:93
# text = The city's average elevation is 659 m above sea level, but ranges from a highest point of 1186 m above sea level to a lowest point of 596 m above sea level.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	659	659	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	above	above	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ranges	range	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	1186	1186	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	above	above	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	596	596	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	above	above	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the city's average elevation |  |  | sea level but ranges from a highest point of 1186 m above sea level to a lowest point of 596 m above sea level |  | 659 m *nmod:unmarked*; ranges from a highest point of 1186 m above sea level to a lowest point of 596 m above sea level *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **elevate** |  | the city |  |  |  |  |  | nom elevation «event transitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **point** |  |  | 1186 m above sea level |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **point** |  |  | 596 m above sea level |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition 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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