Ecuador, sentence 10
From Wikipedia, «Ecuador», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, between 2006 and 2016, poverty decreased from 36.7% to 22.5% and annual per capita GDP growth was 1.5 percent (as compared to 0.6 percent over the prior two decades).
Who acts: poverty · What happens: accord, decrease, be, compare · To what, where: poverty, 1.5 percent
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ecuador». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poverty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Center | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Center | det |
| 4 | Center | Center | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Economic | case |
| 6 | Economic | Economic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Center | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Policy | cc |
| 8 | Policy | Policy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Center | conj |
| 9 | Research | Research | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Policy | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 2006 | punct |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 2006 | case |
| 12 | 2006 | 2006 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Center | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 2016 | cc |
| 14 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 2006 | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 poverty | punct |
| 16 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 percent | nsubj |
| 17 | decreased | decrease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 poverty | acl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 % | case |
| 19 | 36.7 | 36.7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 % | nummod |
| 20 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 17 decreased | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 % | case |
| 22 | 22.5 | 22.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 % | nummod |
| 23 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 17 decreased | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 annual | cc |
| 25 | annual | annual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 % | conj |
| 26 | per | per | ADP | _ | 28 GDP | case |
| 27 | capita | capita | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 GDP | compound |
| 28 | GDP | gdp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 annual | nmod |
| 29 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 % | conj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 percent | cop |
| 31 | 1.5 | 1.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 32 percent | nummod |
| 32 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Center | appos |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 compared | punct |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 compared | mark |
| 35 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 percent | acl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 percent | case |
| 37 | 0.6 | 0.6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 percent | nummod |
| 38 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 compared | obl |
| 39 | over | over | ADP | _ | 43 decades | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 decades | det |
| 41 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 decades | amod |
| 42 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 decades | nummod |
| 43 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 compared | obl |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 compared | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 percent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | decrease | participle | poverty not said here | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Patient from %=Initial_State to %=Result | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | poverty | 1.5 percent | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | compare | participle | 1.5 percent not said here | decade | to 0.6 percent | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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