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title: Most festivals and annual parades are based on religious celebration… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: Most festivals and annual parades are based on religious celebrations, many incorporating a mixture of rites and icons. Who acts: many. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ecuador, sentence 496

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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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Most festivals and annual parades are based on religious celebrations, many incorporating a mixture of rites and icons.

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**Who acts:** many · **What happens:** base, incorporate · **To what, where:** Most festivals, religious celebrations, mixture

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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), 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:496
# text = Most festivals and annual parades are based on religious celebrations, many incorporating a mixture of rites and icons.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	festivals	festival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	parades	parade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	celebrations	celebration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
13	incorporating	incorporate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mixture	mixture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	rites	rite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	icons	icon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | present · passive |  | Most festivals and annual parades |  | religious celebrations |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on celebration=Source |
| 2 | **incorporate** | gerund | many | a mixture of rites and icons |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mixture=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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