Ecuador, sentence 261
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.
As of the writing of the plan in 2008, 19% of Ecuador's land area was protected; however, the plan also states that 32% of the land must be protected in order to truly preserve the nation's biodiversity.
Who acts: plan · What happens: protect, state, preserve, write · To what, where: order, biodiversity, plan · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (plan), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 writing | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 writing | det |
| 4 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 protected | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 plan | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plan | det |
| 7 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 writing | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 2008 | case |
| 9 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 plan | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 writing | punct |
| 11 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 % | nummod |
| 12 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 19 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 area | case |
| 14 | Ecuador | Ecuador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 area | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Ecuador | case |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 area | compound |
| 17 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 % | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 protected | aux:pass |
| 19 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 states | punct |
| 21 | however | however | ADV | _ | 26 states | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 however | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 plan | det |
| 24 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 states | nsubj |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 states | advmod |
| 26 | states | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 protected | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 protected | mark |
| 28 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 % | nummod |
| 29 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 35 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 land | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 land | det |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 % | nmod |
| 33 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 protected | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 protected | aux:pass |
| 35 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 states | ccomp |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 order | case |
| 37 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 protected | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 preserve | mark |
| 39 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 40 preserve | advmod |
| 40 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 protected | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 nation | det |
| 42 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 biodiversity | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 nation | case |
| 44 | biodiversity | biodiversity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 preserve | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 protected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | past · passive | as the writing of the plan in 2008 | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | state speech: other | present | the plan | however property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | protect | must · passive | order | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | preserve | to-infinitive | the nation's biodiversity | truly property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biodiversity=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | write | the plan in 2008 | nom writing «act transitive»: of=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Ecuador», 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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