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title: He announced that the country would default on over $3 billion worth… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: He announced that the country would default on over $3 billion worth of bonds, and he succeeded in reducing the price of outstanding bonds by more than 60% by fighting creditors in international courts. Who acts: Correa, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragm
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# Ecuador, sentence 183

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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 announced that the country would default on over $3 billion worth of bonds, and he succeeded in reducing the price of outstanding bonds by more than 60% by fighting creditors in international courts.

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**Who acts:** Correa, country · **What happens:** announce, default, succeed, reduce, fight · **To what, where:** price, creditors, international courts · **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 (Correa, country), 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:183
# text = He announced that the country would default on over $3 billion worth of bonds, and he succeeded in reducing the price of outstanding bonds by more than 60% by fighting creditors in international courts.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	default	default	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	$	$	SYM	$	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
12	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
13	worth	worth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bonds	bond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	reducing	reduce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	outstanding	outstanding	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bonds	bond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	30	advmod	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
32	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
34	creditors	creditor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	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 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Correa |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **default** | would | the country |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **succeed** | past | Correa |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reduce** | gerund | Correa *not said here* | the price of outstanding bonds |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer price=Patient |
| 5 | **fight** | gerund | Correa *not said here* | creditors |  | international courts |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creditor=Co-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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