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title: He governed until 24 May 1981, when he died, along with his wife and… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: He governed until 24 May 1981, when he died, along with his wife and the minister of defense Marco Subia Martinez, when his Air Force plane crashed in heavy rain near the Peruvian border. Who acts: Jaime, Force plane. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ecuador, sentence 162

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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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He governed until 24 May 1981, when he died, along with his wife and the minister of defense Marco Subia Martinez, when his Air Force plane crashed in heavy rain near the Peruvian border.

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**Who acts:** Jaime, Force plane · **What happens:** govern, die, crash · **To what, where:** heavy rain

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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 (Jaime, Force plane), 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:162
# text = He governed until 24 May 1981, when he died, along with his wife and the minister of defense Marco Subia Martinez, when his Air Force plane crashed in heavy rain near the Peruvian border.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	governed	govern	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	until	until	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	1981	1981	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	along	along	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	defense	defense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	Marco	Marco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	Subia	Subia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	Martinez	Martinez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	Air	Air	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Force	Force	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	plane	plane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	crashed	crash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	near	near	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Peruvian	Peruvian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **govern** | past | Jaime |  |  |  | may |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die** | past | Jaime |  |  |  |  | along Jaime's wife and the minister of defense | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **crash** | past | Jaime's Force plane |  |  | heavy rain |  | near the Peruvian border | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rain=Location |

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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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