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title: It was founded in 1586 and has 170,000 volumes in its possession. — Quito · tree and pragmatics
description: It was founded in 1586 and has 170,000 volumes in its possession. Who acts: One. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Quito» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Quito, sentence 329

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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 was founded in 1586 and has 170,000 volumes in its possession.

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**Who acts:** One · **What happens:** found, have, possess · **To what, where:** One, 1586, 170,000 volumes, possession

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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 (One), 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:329
# text = It was founded in 1586 and has 170,000 volumes in its possession.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1586	1586	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	170,000	170,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	volumes	volume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past · passive |  | One |  | 1586 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | 170,000 volumes |  | One's possession |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volume=Patient |
| 3 | **possess** |  | One |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=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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