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title: The first people who reached Ecuador may have journeyed by land from… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: The first people who reached Ecuador may have journeyed by land from North and Central America or by boat down the Pacific Ocean coastline. Who acts: first people, land. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ecuador, sentence 21

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From Wikipedia, [«Ecuador»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The first people who reached Ecuador may have journeyed by land from North and Central America or by boat down the Pacific Ocean coastline.

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**Who acts:** first people, land · **What happens:** reach, journey · **To what, where:** Ecuador, first people

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ecuador». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first people, land), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Ecuador:21
# text = The first people who reached Ecuador may have journeyed by land from North and Central America or by boat down the Pacific Ocean coastline.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
9	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
16	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	coastline	coastline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the first people | Ecuador |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ecuador=Theme |
| 2 | **journey** | may · perfect · passive | land from North and Central America or boat down the Ocean coastline | the first people |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location subject=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Ecuador», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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