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title: In colonial times, the Church of El Sagrario was one of the largest… — Quito · tree and pragmatics
description: In colonial times, the Church of El Sagrario was one of the largest architectural marvels of Quito. Who acts: Church, Quito. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Quito» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Quito, sentence 224

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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 colonial times, the Church of El Sagrario was one of the largest architectural marvels of Quito.

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**Who acts:** Church, Quito · **What happens:** be, marvel · **To what, where:** one

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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 (Church, Quito), 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:224
# text = In colonial times, the Church of El Sagrario was one of the largest architectural marvels of Quito.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	El	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	Sagrario	Sagrario	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
15	architectural	architectural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	marvels	marvel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Quito	Quito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Church of El | one |  |  | time | of the largest architectural marvels of Quito | tree rules |
| 2 | **marvel** |  | Quito |  |  |  |  |  | nom marvel «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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