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title: The Andes is the watershed divisor between the Amazon watershed, whi… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: The Andes is the watershed divisor between the Amazon watershed, which runs to the east, and the Pacific, including the north–south rivers Mataje, Santiago, Esmeraldas, Chone, Guayas, Jubones, and Puyango-Tumbes. Who acts: Andes, Amazon watershed. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its depende
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# Ecuador, sentence 245

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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 Andes is the watershed divisor between the Amazon watershed, which runs to the east, and the Pacific, including the north–south rivers Mataje, Santiago, Esmeraldas, Chone, Guayas, Jubones, and Puyango-Tumbes.

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**Who acts:** Andes, Amazon watershed · **What happens:** be, run · **To what, where:** watershed divisor

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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 (Andes, Amazon watershed), 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:245
# text = The Andes is the watershed divisor between the Amazon watershed, which runs to the east, and the Pacific, including the north–south rivers Mataje, Santiago, Esmeraldas, Chone, Guayas, Jubones, and Puyango-Tumbes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Andes	Ande	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	watershed	watershed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	divisor	divisor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	watershed	watershed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	including	including	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	south	south	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
28	Mataje	Mataje	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Santiago	Santiago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Esmeraldas	Esmeraldas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Chone	Chone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Guayas	Guayas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Jubones	Jubones	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	Puyango	Puyango	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	Tumbes	Tumbes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Andes | the watershed divisor |  |  |  | between the Amazon watershed; the Pacific and rivers *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | present | the Amazon watershed |  |  |  |  | to the east *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to east=Result |

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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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