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description: It has since been determined, with the use of Global Positioning System technology, that the actual equator is some 240 m north of the monument area. Who acts: village, use, actual equator. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Quito» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Quito, sentence 303

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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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It has since been determined, with the use of Global Positioning System technology, that the actual equator is some 240 m north of the monument area.

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**Who acts:** village, use, actual equator · **What happens:** have, determine, position, be · **To what, where:** System technology, 240 m

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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 (village, use, actual equator), 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:303
# text = It has since been determined, with the use of Global Positioning System technology, that the actual equator is some 240 m north of the monument area.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Global	Global	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	_
12	Positioning	position	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
13	System	System	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	technology	technology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	actual	actual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	equator	equator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	240	240	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
24	north	north	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	monument	monument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | village |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **determine** | participle · passive | village *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the use of Global *conj* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S» |
| 3 | **position** | gerund | the use of Global *not said here* | System technology |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent technology=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the actual equator | some 240 m |  |  |  | north *property* | tree rules |

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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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