Ecuador, sentence 545
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 and most substantial wave of modern immigration to Ecuador consisted of Spanish colonist, following the arrival of Europeans in 1499.
Who acts: first wave, Europeans · What happens: consist, follow, wave, arrive · To what, where: following arrival, 1499, modern immigration
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 wave, Europeans), 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 | 6 wave | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 wave | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 substantial | cc |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 substantial | advmod |
| 5 | substantial | substantial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 first | conj |
| 6 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 consisted | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 immigration | case |
| 8 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 immigration | amod |
| 9 | immigration | immigration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wave | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Ecuador | case |
| 11 | Ecuador | Ecuador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 immigration | nmod |
| 12 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 colonist | case |
| 14 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 colonist | amod |
| 15 | colonist | colonist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 consisted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 following | punct |
| 17 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 arrival | amod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 arrival | det |
| 19 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 consisted | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Europeans | case |
| 21 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 arrival | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1499 | case |
| 23 | 1499 | 1499 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 consisted | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 consisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | past | the first wave of modern immigration to Ecuador | the following arrival of Europeans | 1499 | of Spanish colonist | tree rules | ||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | wave | modern immigration to Ecuador | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | arrive | Europeans | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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