Quito, sentence 303
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.
It has since been determined, with the use of Global Positioning System technology, that the actual equator is some 240 m north of the monument area.
Who acts: village, use, actual equator · What happens: have, determine, position, be · To what, where: System technology, 240 m
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 (village, use, actual equator), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 5 determined | mark |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 determined | aux:pass |
| 5 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 has | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 use | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 use | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 use | det |
| 9 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 determined | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Global | case |
| 11 | Global | Global | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 use | nmod |
| 12 | Positioning | position | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 use | acl |
| 13 | System | System | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 technology | compound |
| 14 | technology | technology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Positioning | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 m | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 m | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 equator | det |
| 18 | actual | actual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 equator | amod |
| 19 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 m | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 m | cop |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 m | det |
| 22 | 240 | 240 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 m | nummod |
| 23 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Positioning | obl |
| 24 | north | north | ADV | _ | 23 m | advmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 area | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 area | det |
| 27 | monument | monument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 area | compound |
| 28 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 north | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | village | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | determine | participle · passive | village not said here | the use of Global conj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S» | ||||
| 3 | position | gerund | the use of Global not said here | System technology | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent technology=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the actual equator | some 240 m | north property | tree rules |
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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