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title: Fruitless negotiations continued between the governments of Bogotá a… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» wi
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# Ecuador, sentence 100

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From Wikipedia, [«Ecuador»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador), 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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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.

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**Who acts:** government, war, Ecuador · **What happens:** continue, not recognize, break out, separate · **To what, where:** Fruitless negotiations, separation, Gran Colombia

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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.

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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:Ecuador:100
# text = 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.
1	Fruitless	fruitless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	negotiations	negotiation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Bogotá	Bogotá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Quito	Quito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Bogotá	Bogotá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	recognize	recognize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Cauca	Cauca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Colombia	Colombia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
32	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	1832	1832	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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, «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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