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title: Many civilizations arose in Ecuador, such as the Valdivia Culture an… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: Many civilizations arose in Ecuador, such as the Valdivia Culture and Machalilla Culture on the coast, the Quitus (near present-day Quito), and the Cañari (near present-day Cuenca). Who acts: Many civilizations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ecuador, sentence 24

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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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Many civilizations arose in Ecuador, such as the Valdivia Culture and Machalilla Culture on the coast, the Quitus (near present-day Quito), and the Cañari (near present-day Cuenca).

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**Who acts:** Many civilizations · **What happens:** arise · **To what, where:** Cañari, Ecuador

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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 (Many civilizations), 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:24
# text = Many civilizations arose in Ecuador, such as the Valdivia Culture and Machalilla Culture on the coast, the Quitus (near present-day Quito), and the Cañari (near present-day Cuenca).
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	civilizations	civilization	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Valdivia	Valdivia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Culture	Culture	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Machalilla	Machalilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Quitus	Quitus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
26	Quito	Quito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Cañari	Cañari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
37	Cuenca	Cuenca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | Many civilizations | the Cañari |  | Ecuador and the Valdivia Culture and Machalilla Culture on the coast and the Quitus |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ecuador=Location |

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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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