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title: The old airport was closed to air traffic on 19 February 2013. — Quito · tree and pragmatics
description: The old airport was closed to air traffic on 19 February 2013. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Quito» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Quito, sentence 75

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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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The old airport was closed to air traffic on 19 February 2013.

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**What happens:** close · **To what, where:** old airport, air traffic, 19

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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: 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:75
# text = The old airport was closed to air traffic on 19 February 2013.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
11	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | past · passive |  | the old airport | air traffic | 19  February |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to traffic=Recipient |

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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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