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title: The acting president's wife receives the title of First Lady of Ecua… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: The acting president's wife receives the title of First Lady of Ecuador. Who acts: wife. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ecuador, sentence 290

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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 acting president's wife receives the title of First Lady of Ecuador.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** receive, title · **To what, where:** title, First Lady

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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 (wife), 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:290
# text = The acting president's wife receives the title of First Lady of Ecuador.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	acting	acting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	First	First	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | present | the acting president's wife | the title of First Lady of Ecuador |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Theme |
| 2 | **title** |  |  | First Lady of Ecuador |  |  |  |  | nom title «communication 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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