Quito, sentence 329
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 was founded in 1586 and has 170,000 volumes in its possession.
Who acts: One · What happens: found, have, possess · To what, where: One, 1586, 170,000 volumes, possession
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 (One), 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 | 3 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 founded | aux:pass |
| 3 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1586 | case |
| 5 | 1586 | 1586 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 founded | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 has | cc |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 founded | conj |
| 8 | 170,000 | 170,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 volumes | nummod |
| 9 | volumes | volume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 possession | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 possession | nmod:poss |
| 12 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 volumes | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past · passive | One | 1586 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | 170,000 volumes | One's possession | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volume=Patient | ||||
| 3 | possess | One | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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