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title: In the late fifteenth century, the Inca Emperor Huayna Capac defeate… — Quito · tree and pragmatics
description: In the late fifteenth century, the Inca Emperor Huayna Capac defeated the Quitu, the region's original inhabitants, and incorporated Quito into the Inca Empire, designating it the capital of the Inca Empire's northern region. Who acts: Inca Emperor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Quito» with its depende
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# Quito, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«Quito»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quito), 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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In the late fifteenth century, the Inca Emperor Huayna Capac defeated the Quitu, the region's original inhabitants, and incorporated Quito into the Inca Empire, designating it the capital of the Inca Empire's northern region.

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**Who acts:** Inca Emperor · **What happens:** defeat, incorporate, designate · **To what, where:** Quitu, Quito, Empire

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Quito». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Inca Emperor), 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:Quito:10
# text = In the late fifteenth century, the Inca Emperor Huayna Capac defeated the Quitu, the region's original inhabitants, and incorporated Quito into the Inca Empire, designating it the capital of the Inca Empire's northern region.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	fifteenth	fifteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Inca	Inca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	Huayna	Huayna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	Capac	Capac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Quitu	Quitu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	incorporated	incorporate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	Quito	Quito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Inca	Inca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	designating	designate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Inca	Inca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defeat** | past | the Inca Emperor | the Quitu and the region's original inhabitants |  |  | century |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **incorporate** | past | the Inca Emperor *not said here* | Quito |  |  |  | into the Inca Empire | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent quito=Patient into empire=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **designate** | gerund | the Inca Emperor *not said here* | Empire |  |  |  | the capital of the Inca Empire's northern region *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme capital=Attribute |

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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, «Quito», 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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