Quito, sentence 44
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.
Further, on 23 February 1556, it was given the title Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de San Francisco de Quito ("Very Noble and Loyal City of San Francisco of Quito"), marking the start of its next phase of urban development.
What happens: give, y, mark, start · To what, where: city, Muy Ciudad San, start, next phase
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: 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 | Further | further | ADV | _ | 10 given | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Further | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 23 | case |
| 4 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Further | obl |
| 5 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 23 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | 1556 | 1556 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 23 | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Further | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 given | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux:pass |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 y | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 title | det |
| 12 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obj |
| 13 | Muy | Muy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 title | appos |
| 14 | Noble | Noble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Muy | flat |
| 15 | y | y | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Muy | Muy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 San | compound |
| 17 | Leal | Leal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Muy | flat |
| 18 | Ciudad | Ciudad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 San | compound |
| 19 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ciudad | flat |
| 20 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 y | obj |
| 21 | Francisco | Francisco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 San | flat |
| 22 | de | de | ADP | _ | 30 City | case |
| 23 | Quito | Quito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 City | compound |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 Noble | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Noble | punct |
| 26 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 27 Noble | advmod |
| 27 | Noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 City | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Loyal | cc |
| 29 | Loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Noble | conj |
| 30 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 y | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 San | case |
| 32 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 City | nmod |
| 33 | Francisco | Francisco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 San | flat |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Quito | case |
| 35 | Quito | Quito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Francisco | nmod |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Quito | punct |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 Quito | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 marking | punct |
| 39 | marking | mark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 y | advcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 start | det |
| 41 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 marking | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 phase | case |
| 43 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 phase | nmod:poss |
| 44 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 phase | amod |
| 45 | phase | phase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 start | nmod |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 development | case |
| 47 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 development | amod |
| 48 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 phase | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 y | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | city | the title obj; further property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient title=Theme | ||||
| 2 | y | past | Muy Ciudad San | de Quito Noble City of San | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mark | gerund | the start of start's next phase of urban development | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent start=Destination | |||||
| 4 | start | start's next phase of urban development | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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