Quito, sentence 202
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.
The palace overlooks the bustling public space known as Independence Square or Plaza Grande (colonial name), together with the Archbishop's Palace, the Municipal Palace, the Hotel Plaza Grande and the Metropolitan Cathedral.
Who acts: palace · What happens: overlook, know · To what, where: bustling public space
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 (palace), 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 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overlooks | nsubj |
| 3 | overlooks | overlook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 space | det |
| 5 | bustling | bustling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 space | amod |
| 6 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 space | amod |
| 7 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overlooks | obj |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 space | acl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 Square | case |
| 10 | Independence | Independence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Square | compound |
| 11 | Square | Square | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 known | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 Plaza | cc |
| 13 | Plaza | Plaza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Square | conj |
| 14 | Grande | Grande | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Plaza | flat |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 name | punct |
| 16 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 name | amod |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Plaza | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 name | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 together | punct |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 overlooks | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Palace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Archbishop | det |
| 23 | Archbishop | Archbishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Palace | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Archbishop | case |
| 25 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 overlooks | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Palace | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Palace | det |
| 28 | Municipal | municipal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Palace | amod |
| 29 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Palace | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Grande | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Grande | det |
| 32 | Hotel | Hotel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Grande | compound |
| 33 | Plaza | Plaza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Grande | compound |
| 34 | Grande | Grande | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Palace | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Cathedral | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Cathedral | det |
| 37 | Metropolitan | Metropolitan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Cathedral | compound |
| 38 | Cathedral | Cathedral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Palace | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 overlooks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overlook | present | the palace | the bustling public space | with the Archbishop's Palace and the Municipal Palace and the Hotel Plaza Grande and the Metropolitan Cathedral; together property | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | participle | the bustling public space not said here | as Independence Square or Plaza | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as square=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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