Ecuador, sentence 100
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.
Fruitless negotiations continued between the governments of Bogotá and Quito, where the government of Bogotá did not recognize the separation of Ecuador or that of Cauca from the Gran Colombia until war broke out in May 1832.
Who acts: government, war, Ecuador · What happens: continue, not recognize, break out, separate · To what, where: Fruitless negotiations, separation, Gran Colombia
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 (government, war, Ecuador), 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 | Fruitless | fruitless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 negotiations | amod |
| 2 | negotiations | negotiation | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 negotiations | acl |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 governments | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 governments | det |
| 6 | governments | government | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 continued | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Bogotá | case |
| 8 | Bogotá | Bogotá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 governments | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Quito | cc |
| 10 | Quito | Quito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bogotá | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 recognize | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 recognize | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 government | det |
| 14 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 recognize | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Bogotá | case |
| 16 | Bogotá | Bogotá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 government | nmod |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 recognize | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 recognize | advmod |
| 19 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 negotiations | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 separation | det |
| 21 | separation | separation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 recognize | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Ecuador | case |
| 23 | Ecuador | Ecuador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 separation | nmod |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 Cauca | cc |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 Cauca | mark |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Cauca | case |
| 27 | Cauca | Cauca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ecuador | conj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Colombia | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Colombia | det |
| 30 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Colombia | compound |
| 31 | Colombia | Colombia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 recognize | obl |
| 32 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 34 broke | mark |
| 33 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 broke | nsubj |
| 34 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 recognize | advcl |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 broke | compound:prt |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 May | case |
| 37 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 broke | obl |
| 38 | 1832 | 1832 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 May | nmod:unmarked |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 negotiations | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | participle | Fruitless negotiations not said here | between the governments of Bogotá and Quito | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not recognize | past · do-support | the government of Bogotá | the separation of Ecuador or Cauca | the Gran Colombia | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer separation=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | break out | past | war | may | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | separate | Ecuador or Cauca | nom separation «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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