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title: The most populated metropolitan areas of the country are those of Gu… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: The most populated metropolitan areas of the country are those of Guayaquil, Quito, Cuenca, Manabí Centro (Portoviejo-Manta) and Ambato. Who acts: populated metropolitan areas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ecuador, sentence 449

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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 most populated metropolitan areas of the country are those of Guayaquil, Quito, Cuenca, Manabí Centro (Portoviejo-Manta) and Ambato.

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**Who acts:** populated metropolitan areas · **What happens:** populate, be · **To what, where:** those

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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 (populated metropolitan areas), 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:449
# text = The most populated metropolitan areas of the country are those of Guayaquil, Quito, Cuenca, Manabí Centro (Portoviejo-Manta) and Ambato.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	populated	populate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Guayaquil	Guayaquil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Quito	Quito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Cuenca	Cuenca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Manabí	Manabí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	Centro	Centro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Portoviejo	Portoviejo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Manta	Manta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Ambato	Ambato	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **populate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the populated metropolitan areas of the country | those |  |  |  | of Guayaquil and Quito and Cuenca and Manabí and Ambato | tree rules |

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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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