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title: In 2009, the new administration at the Defense Ministry launched a d… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2009, the new administration at the Defense Ministry launched a deep restructuring within the forces, increasing spending budget to $1,691,776,803, an increase of 25%. Who acts: new administration. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ecuador, sentence 338

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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 2009, the new administration at the Defense Ministry launched a deep restructuring within the forces, increasing spending budget to $1,691,776,803, an increase of 25%.

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**Who acts:** new administration · **What happens:** launch, increase, spend · **To what, where:** deep restructuring, 2009, budget

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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 (new administration), 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:338
# text = In 2009, the new administration at the Defense Ministry launched a deep restructuring within the forces, increasing spending budget to $1,691,776,803, an increase of 25%.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Defense	Defense	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Ministry	Ministry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	restructuring	restructuring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
20	spending	spend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	budget	budget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	$	$	SYM	$	_	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	1,691,776,803	1,691,776,803	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **launch** | past | the new administration at the Defense Ministry | a deep restructuring |  | 2009 |  | within the forces | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent restructuring=Theme in 2009=Destination |
| 2 | **increase** | gerund | the new administration at the Defense Ministry *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spend** | gerund | the new administration at the Defense Ministry *not said here* | budget |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent budget=Asset |

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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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