Ecuador, sentence 38
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 army stationed north headed by Atahualpa marched south to Cuzco and massacred the royal family associated with his brother.
Who acts: army, Atahualpa · What happens: station, head, march, massacre, associate · To what, where: Cuzco, royal family
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 (army, Atahualpa), 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 | 2 army | det |
| 2 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stationed | nsubj |
| 3 | stationed | station | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | north | north | ADV | _ | 5 headed | advmod |
| 5 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stationed | advcl |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 marched | mark |
| 7 | Atahualpa | Atahualpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 marched | nsubj |
| 8 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 headed | advcl |
| 9 | south | south | ADV | _ | 8 marched | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Cuzco | case |
| 11 | Cuzco | Cuzco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 marched | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 massacred | cc |
| 13 | massacred | massacre | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 marched | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 family | det |
| 15 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 family | amod |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 massacred | obj |
| 17 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 family | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 brother | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 associated | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stationed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | station | past | the army | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | head | participle | the army not said here | north property | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | march | past | Atahualpa | Cuzco | south property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cuzco=Result | |||
| 4 | massacre | past | Atahualpa not said here | the royal family | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient | ||||
| 5 | associate | participle | the royal family not said here | with Atahualpa's brother | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with brother=Co-Patient |
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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