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title: The army stationed north headed by Atahualpa marched south to Cuzco… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: The army stationed north headed by Atahualpa marched south to Cuzco and massacred the royal family associated with his brother. Who acts: army, Atahualpa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ecuador, sentence 38

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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 army stationed north headed by Atahualpa marched south to Cuzco and massacred the royal family associated with his brother.

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**Who acts:** army, Atahualpa · **What happens:** station, head, march, massacre, associate · **To what, where:** Cuzco, royal family

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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 (army, Atahualpa), 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:38
# text = The army stationed north headed by Atahualpa marched south to Cuzco and massacred the royal family associated with his brother.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stationed	station	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	north	north	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	Atahualpa	Atahualpa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	south	south	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Cuzco	Cuzco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	massacred	massacre	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **station** | past | the army |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **head** | participle | the army *not said here* |  |  |  |  | north *property* | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **march** | past | Atahualpa |  | Cuzco |  |  | south *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cuzco=Result |
| 4 | **massacre** | past | Atahualpa *not said here* | the royal family |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient |
| 5 | **associate** | participle |  | the royal family *not said here* |  |  |  | with Atahualpa's brother | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with brother=Co-Patient |

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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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