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title: Quito Zoo, located near the rural parish of Guayllabamba, about 20 k… — Quito · tree and pragmatics
description: Quito Zoo, located near the rural parish of Guayllabamba, about 20 km outside Quito, has the biggest collection of native fauna in Ecuador, including several kinds of animals that are sometimes targeted in Ecuador in the illegal fur trade. Who acts: Quito Zoo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Quito» with 
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# Quito, sentence 308

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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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Quito Zoo, located near the rural parish of Guayllabamba, about 20 km outside Quito, has the biggest collection of native fauna in Ecuador, including several kinds of animals that are sometimes targeted in Ecuador in the illegal fur trade.

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**Who acts:** Quito Zoo · **What happens:** locate, have, target · **To what, where:** Quito Zoo, rural parish, biggest collection, animals, Ecuador

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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 (Quito Zoo), 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:308
# text = Quito Zoo, located near the rural parish of Guayllabamba, about 20 km outside Quito, has the biggest collection of native fauna in Ecuador, including several kinds of animals that are sometimes targeted in Ecuador in the illegal fur trade.
1	Quito	Quito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	parish	parish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Guayllabamba	Guayllabamba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Quito	Quito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fauna	fauna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	including	including	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
35	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	advmod	_	_
36	targeted	target	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	illegal	illegal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | participle |  | Quito Zoo *not said here* |  | the rural parish of Guayllabamba and 20 km outside Quito |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | Quito Zoo | the biggest collection of native fauna in Ecuador and several kinds of animals |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Patient |
| 3 | **target** | present · passive |  | animals |  | Ecuador |  | in the illegal fur trade; sometimes *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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