Ecuador, sentence 21
From Wikipedia, «Ecuador», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The first people who reached Ecuador may have journeyed by land from North and Central America or by boat down the Pacific Ocean coastline.
Who acts: first people, land · What happens: reach, journey · To what, where: Ecuador, first people
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ecuador». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first people, land), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 journeyed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 people | acl:relcl |
| 6 | Ecuador | Ecuador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 journeyed | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 journeyed | aux |
| 9 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 journeyed | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 North | case |
| 13 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 land | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 America | cc |
| 15 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 America | flat |
| 16 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 North | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 boat | cc |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 boat | case |
| 19 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 land | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 coastline | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 coastline | det |
| 22 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ocean | compound |
| 23 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 coastline | compound |
| 24 | coastline | coastline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 boat | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the first people | Ecuador | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ecuador=Theme | ||||
| 2 | journey | may · perfect · passive | land from North and Central America or boat down the Ocean coastline | the first people | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location subject=Theme |
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