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title: Sixto Durán Ballén, the Ecuadorian president, famously declared that… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: Sixto Durán Ballén, the Ecuadorian president, famously declared that he would not give up a single centimeter of Ecuador. Who acts: Sixto. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ecuador, sentence 144

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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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Sixto Durán Ballén, the Ecuadorian president, famously declared that he would not give up a single centimeter of Ecuador.

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**Who acts:** Sixto · **What happens:** declare, not give up · **To what, where:** single centimeter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sixto), 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:144
# text = Sixto Durán Ballén, the Ecuadorian president, famously declared that he would not give up a single centimeter of Ecuador.
1	Sixto	Sixto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	Durán	Durán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Ballén	Ballén	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Ecuadorian	ecuadorian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	famously	famously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	centimeter	centimeter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Sixto |  |  |  |  | famously *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **give up** | would | Sixto | a single centimeter of Ecuador |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centimeter=Source |

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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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