Ecuador, sentence 450
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.
Ecuador houses a small East Asian community mainly consisting of those of Japanese and Chinese descent, whose ancestors arrived as miners, farmhands and fishermen in the late 19th century.
Who acts: small East Asian community, ancestors · What happens: consist, arrive · To what, where: Ecuador houses
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 (small East Asian community, ancestors), 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 | Ecuador | Ecuador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 houses | compound |
| 2 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 community | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 community | amod |
| 5 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 community | compound |
| 6 | Asian | Asian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 community | amod |
| 7 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 houses | nmod |
| 8 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 9 consisting | advmod |
| 9 | consisting | consist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 community | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 those | case |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 consisting | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 descent | case |
| 13 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 descent | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Chinese | cc |
| 15 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Japanese | conj |
| 16 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 those | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 arrived | punct |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 arrived | nsubj |
| 20 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 descent | acl:relcl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 miners | case |
| 22 | miners | miner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 arrived | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 farmhands | punct |
| 24 | farmhands | farmhand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 miners | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fishermen | cc |
| 26 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 miners | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 century | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 century | det |
| 29 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 century | amod |
| 30 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 31 century | amod |
| 31 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arrived | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 houses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | gerund | a small East Asian community not said here | of a small East Asian community; mainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | ancestors | century | as miners and farmhands and fishermen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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