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title: The population has been motivated by government failures to deliver… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: The population has been motivated by government failures to deliver on promises of land reform, lower unemployment and provision of social services, and the historical exploitation by the land-holding elite. Who acts: government failures, social services, holding elite. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ec
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# Ecuador, sentence 175

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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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The population has been motivated by government failures to deliver on promises of land reform, lower unemployment and provision of social services, and the historical exploitation by the land-holding elite.

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**Who acts:** government failures, social services, holding elite · **What happens:** motivate, deliver, hold, promise, provide, exploit · **To what, where:** population, promises, land reform

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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 failures, social services, holding elite), 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:175
# text = The population has been motivated by government failures to deliver on promises of land reform, lower unemployment and provision of social services, and the historical exploitation by the land-holding elite.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	motivated	motivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	failures	failure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	reform	reform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	unemployment	unemployment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	provision	provision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	exploitation	exploitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	amod	_	_
34	elite	elite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **motivate** | present · perfect · passive | government failures | the population |  |  |  | the historical exploitation by the holding elite *obl* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | government failures *not said here* |  |  | promises of land reform and lower unemployment and provision of social services |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | land *compound* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **promise** |  |  | land reform and lower unemployment and provision of social services |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **provide** |  | social services |  |  |  |  |  | nom provision «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **exploit** |  | the holding elite |  |  |  |  |  | nom exploitation «act transitive»: by=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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