Quito, sentence 308
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.
Quito Zoo, located near the rural parish of Guayllabamba, about 20 km outside Quito, has the biggest collection of native fauna in Ecuador, including several kinds of animals that are sometimes targeted in Ecuador in the illegal fur trade.
Who acts: Quito Zoo · What happens: locate, have, target · To what, where: Quito Zoo, rural parish, biggest collection, animals, Ecuador
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 (Quito Zoo), 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 | Quito | Quito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Zoo | compound |
| 2 | Zoo | Zoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 has | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 located | punct |
| 4 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Zoo | acl |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 parish | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 parish | det |
| 7 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 parish | amod |
| 8 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 located | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Guayllabamba | case |
| 10 | Guayllabamba | Guayllabamba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 parish | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 km | punct |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 20 | advmod |
| 13 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 km | nummod |
| 14 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 parish | conj |
| 15 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 16 Quito | case |
| 16 | Quito | Quito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 km | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Zoo | punct |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 collection | det |
| 20 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 collection | amod |
| 21 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fauna | case |
| 23 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fauna | amod |
| 24 | fauna | fauna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 collection | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Ecuador | case |
| 26 | Ecuador | Ecuador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 fauna | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 kinds | punct |
| 28 | including | including | ADP | _ | 30 kinds | case |
| 29 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 kinds | amod |
| 30 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fauna | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 animals | case |
| 32 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 kinds | nmod |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 targeted | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 targeted | aux:pass |
| 35 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 targeted | advmod |
| 36 | targeted | target | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 animals | acl:relcl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 Ecuador | case |
| 38 | Ecuador | Ecuador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 targeted | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 trade | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 trade | det |
| 41 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 trade | amod |
| 42 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 trade | compound |
| 43 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 targeted | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | participle | Quito Zoo not said here | the rural parish of Guayllabamba and 20 km outside Quito | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Quito Zoo | the biggest collection of native fauna in Ecuador and several kinds of animals | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Patient | ||||
| 3 | target | present · passive | animals | Ecuador | in the illegal fur trade; sometimes property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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