Quito, sentence 10
From Wikipedia, «Quito», 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.
In the late fifteenth century, the Inca Emperor Huayna Capac defeated the Quitu, the region's original inhabitants, and incorporated Quito into the Inca Empire, designating it the capital of the Inca Empire's northern region.
Who acts: Inca Emperor · What happens: defeat, incorporate, designate · To what, where: Quitu, Quito, Empire
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Quito». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Inca Emperor), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 century | det |
| 3 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 century | amod |
| 4 | fifteenth | fifteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 century | amod |
| 5 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 defeated | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 century | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Emperor | det |
| 8 | Inca | Inca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Emperor | compound |
| 9 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 defeated | nsubj |
| 10 | Huayna | Huayna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Emperor | appos |
| 11 | Capac | Capac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Huayna | flat |
| 12 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Quitu | det |
| 14 | Quitu | Quitu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 defeated | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 inhabitants | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 region | det |
| 17 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 inhabitants | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 region | case |
| 19 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 inhabitants | amod |
| 20 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Quitu | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 incorporated | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 incorporated | cc |
| 23 | incorporated | incorporate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 defeated | conj |
| 24 | Quito | Quito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 incorporated | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 Empire | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Empire | det |
| 27 | Inca | Inca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Empire | compound |
| 28 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 incorporated | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 designating | punct |
| 30 | designating | designate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 incorporated | advcl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 designating | obj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 capital | det |
| 33 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 designating | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 region | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Empire | det |
| 36 | Inca | Inca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Empire | compound |
| 37 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 region | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 Empire | case |
| 39 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 region | amod |
| 40 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 capital | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 defeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defeat | past | the Inca Emperor | the Quitu and the region's original inhabitants | century | tree rules | |||
| 2 | incorporate | past | the Inca Emperor not said here | Quito | into the Inca Empire | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent quito=Patient into empire=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | designate | gerund | the Inca Emperor not said here | Empire | the capital of the Inca Empire's northern region obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme capital=Attribute |
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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