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title: As of the writing of the plan in 2008, 19% of Ecuador's land area wa… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: As of the writing of the plan in 2008, 19% of Ecuador's land area was protected; however, the plan also states that 32% of the land must be protected in order to truly preserve the nation's biodiversity. Who acts: plan. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ecuador, sentence 261

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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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As of the writing of the plan in 2008, 19% of Ecuador's land area was protected; however, the plan also states that 32% of the land must be protected in order to truly preserve the nation's biodiversity.

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**Who acts:** plan · **What happens:** protect, state, preserve, write · **To what, where:** order, biodiversity, plan · **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 (plan), 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:261
# text = As of the writing of the plan in 2008, 19% of Ecuador's land area was protected; however, the plan also states that 32% of the land must be protected in order to truly preserve the nation's biodiversity.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	protected	protect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	however	however	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	states	state	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
28	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	protected	protect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
39	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	's	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	biodiversity	biodiversity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as the writing of the plan in 2008 | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **state** *speech: other* | present | the plan |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **protect** | must · passive |  |  |  | order |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **preserve** | to-infinitive |  | the nation's biodiversity |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biodiversity=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **write** |  |  | the plan in 2008 |  |  |  |  | nom writing «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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