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title: His government was committed to improving human rights protection an… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: His government was committed to improving human rights protection and carried out some reforms, notably an opening of Ecuador to foreign trade. Who acts: government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ecuador, sentence 167

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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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His government was committed to improving human rights protection and carried out some reforms, notably an opening of Ecuador to foreign trade.

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**Who acts:** government · **What happens:** be, improve, carry out · **To what, where:** rights protection, reforms

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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), 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:167
# text = His government was committed to improving human rights protection and carried out some reforms, notably an opening of Ecuador to foreign trade.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	committed	committed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	improving	improve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	compound	_	_
9	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	reforms	reform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	notably	notably	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Party's government |  |  |  |  | committed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **improve** | gerund | Party's government *not said here* | rights protection |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent protection=Patient |
| 3 | **carry out** | past | Party's government *not said here* | some reforms |  |  |  | to foreign trade | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reform=Eventuality |

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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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