Ecuador, sentence 7
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.
Spanish is the official language spoken by a majority of the population, although 13 native languages are also recognized, including Quechua and Shuar.
Who acts: Spanish · What happens: be, speak, recognize · To what, where: official language, 13 native languages · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Spanish), 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 | Spanish | Spanish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 language | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 language | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 language | det |
| 4 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 language | amod |
| 5 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 language | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 majority | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 majority | det |
| 9 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoken | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 population | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 population | det |
| 12 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 majority | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognized | punct |
| 14 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 20 recognized | mark |
| 15 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 languages | nummod |
| 16 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 languages | amod |
| 17 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 recognized | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 recognized | aux:pass |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 recognized | advmod |
| 20 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 spoken | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Quechua | punct |
| 22 | including | including | ADP | _ | 23 Quechua | case |
| 23 | Quechua | Quechua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 recognized | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Shuar | cc |
| 25 | Shuar | Shuar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Quechua | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 language | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Spanish | the official language | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | participle | the official language not said here | by a majority of the population | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | recognize | present · passive | 13 native languages | including Quechua and Shuar | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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