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title: The palace overlooks the bustling public space known as Independence… — Quito · tree and pragmatics
description: The palace overlooks the bustling public space known as Independence Square or Plaza Grande (colonial name), together with the Archbishop's Palace, the Municipal Palace, the Hotel Plaza Grande and the Metropolitan Cathedral. Who acts: palace. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Quito» with its dependency tre
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# Quito, sentence 202

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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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The palace overlooks the bustling public space known as Independence Square or Plaza Grande (colonial name), together with the Archbishop's Palace, the Municipal Palace, the Hotel Plaza Grande and the Metropolitan Cathedral.

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**Who acts:** palace · **What happens:** overlook, know · **To what, where:** bustling public space

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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 (palace), 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:202
# text = The palace overlooks the bustling public space known as Independence Square or Plaza Grande (colonial name), together with the Archbishop's Palace, the Municipal Palace, the Hotel Plaza Grande and the Metropolitan Cathedral.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	overlooks	overlook	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	bustling	bustling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Independence	Independence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Square	Square	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Plaza	Plaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	Grande	Grande	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Archbishop	Archbishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	Hotel	Hotel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	Plaza	Plaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Grande	Grande	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Metropolitan	Metropolitan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Cathedral	Cathedral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overlook** | present | the palace | the bustling public space |  |  |  | with the Archbishop's Palace and the Municipal Palace and the Hotel Plaza Grande and the Metropolitan Cathedral; together *property* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | the bustling public space *not said here* |  |  |  | as Independence Square or Plaza | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as square=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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