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title: Ecuador houses a small East Asian community mainly consisting of tho… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: Ecuador houses a small East Asian community mainly consisting of those of Japanese and Chinese descent, whose ancestors arrived as miners, farmhands and fishermen in the late 19th century. Who acts: small East Asian community, ancestors. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree a
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# Ecuador, sentence 450

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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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Ecuador houses a small East Asian community mainly consisting of those of Japanese and Chinese descent, whose ancestors arrived as miners, farmhands and fishermen in the late 19th century.

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**Who acts:** small East Asian community, ancestors · **What happens:** consist, arrive · **To what, where:** Ecuador houses

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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 (small East Asian community, ancestors), 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:450
# text = Ecuador houses a small East Asian community mainly consisting of those of Japanese and Chinese descent, whose ancestors arrived as miners, farmhands and fishermen in the late 19th century.
1	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	consisting	consist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	miners	miner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	farmhands	farmhand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
31	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | gerund | a small East Asian community *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a small East Asian community; mainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | ancestors |  |  |  | century | as miners and farmhands and fishermen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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