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title: In 1833, members of the Society of Free Inhabitants of Quito were as… — Quito · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1833, members of the Society of Free Inhabitants of Quito were assassinated by the government after they conspired against it. Who acts: government, members. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Quito» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Quito, sentence 59

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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 1833, members of the Society of Free Inhabitants of Quito were assassinated by the government after they conspired against it.

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**Who acts:** government, members · **What happens:** assassinate, conspire · **To what, where:** members, 1833

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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 (government, members), 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:59
# text = In 1833, members of the Society of Free Inhabitants of Quito were assassinated by the government after they conspired against it.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1833	1833	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Inhabitants	Inhabitant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Quito	Quito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	assassinated	assassinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	conspired	conspire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assassinate** | past · passive | the government | members of the Society of Free Inhabitants of Quito |  | 1833 |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **conspire** | past | members *= member* |  |  |  |  | against government | vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against it=Maleficiary |

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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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