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title: In January 2024, Noboa declared an "internal armed conflict" against… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: In January 2024, Noboa declared an "internal armed conflict" against organized crime in response to the escape of the imprisoned leader of the Los Choneros cartel and terrorist group, José Adolfo Macías Villamar (also known as "Fito"), and an armed attack at a public television channel. Who acts: No
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# Ecuador, sentence 209

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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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In January 2024, Noboa declared an "internal armed conflict" against organized crime in response to the escape of the imprisoned leader of the Los Choneros cartel and terrorist group, José Adolfo Macías Villamar (also known as "Fito"), and an armed attack at a public television channel.

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**Who acts:** Noboa, imprisoned leader · **What happens:** declare, imprison, know, escape · **To what, where:** internal armed conflict

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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 (Noboa, imprisoned leader), 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:209
# text = In January 2024, Noboa declared an "internal armed conflict" against organized crime in response to the escape of the imprisoned leader of the Los Choneros cartel and terrorist group, José Adolfo Macías Villamar (also known as "Fito"), and an armed attack at a public television channel.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Noboa	Noboa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	organized	organized	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	Los	Los	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	Choneros	Choneros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	cartel	cartel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	terrorist	terrorist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	José	José	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Adolfo	Adolfo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
36	Macías	Macías	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	_
37	Villamar	Villamar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	_
38	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	also	also	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	parataxis	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	Fito	Fito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
51	at	at	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
53	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
54	television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | Noboa | a internal armed conflict |  |  | january | against organized crime in response to the escape of the imprisoned leader of the Los cartel and terrorist group; José Adolfo *obl*; a armed attack at a public television channel *conj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conflict=Attribute |
| 2 | **imprison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as Fito | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as fito=Attribute |
| 4 | **escape** |  | the imprisoned leader of the Los cartel and terrorist group |  |  |  |  |  | nom escape «act intransitive»: of=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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