Ecuador, sentence 24
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.
Many civilizations arose in Ecuador, such as the Valdivia Culture and Machalilla Culture on the coast, the Quitus (near present-day Quito), and the Cañari (near present-day Cuenca).
Who acts: Many civilizations · What happens: arise · To what, where: Cañari, Ecuador
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 (Many civilizations), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 civilizations | amod |
| 2 | civilizations | civilization | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Ecuador | case |
| 5 | Ecuador | Ecuador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arose | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Culture | punct |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 Culture | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 such | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Culture | det |
| 10 | Valdivia | Valdivia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Culture | compound |
| 11 | Culture | Culture | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ecuador | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Culture | cc |
| 13 | Machalilla | Machalilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Culture | compound |
| 14 | Culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Ecuador | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 coast | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 coast | det |
| 17 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Culture | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Quitus | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Quitus | det |
| 20 | Quitus | Quitus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ecuador | conj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 day | punct |
| 22 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 23 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 day | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 present | punct |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Quitus | appos |
| 26 | Quito | Quito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 day | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 day | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Cañari | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Cañari | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Cañari | det |
| 31 | Cañari | Cañari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arose | obl |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 day | punct |
| 33 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 day | amod |
| 34 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 day | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 present | punct |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Cañari | appos |
| 37 | Cuenca | Cuenca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 day | appos |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 day | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | Many civilizations | the Cañari | Ecuador and the Valdivia Culture and Machalilla Culture on the coast and the Quitus | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ecuador=Location |
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