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title: A 2003 Amnesty International report was critical that there were sca… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: A 2003 Amnesty International report was critical that there were scarce few prosecutions for human rights violations committed by security forces, and those only in police courts, which are not considered impartial or independent. Who acts: Amnesty International report, scarce few prosecutions. A se
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# Ecuador, sentence 342

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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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A 2003 Amnesty International report was critical that there were scarce few prosecutions for human rights violations committed by security forces, and those only in police courts, which are not considered impartial or independent.

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**Who acts:** Amnesty International report, scarce few prosecutions · **What happens:** be, commit, not consider · **To what, where:** rights violations, police courts

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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 (Amnesty International report, scarce few prosecutions), 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:342
# text = A 2003 Amnesty International report was critical that there were scarce few prosecutions for human rights violations committed by security forces, and those only in police courts, which are not considered impartial or independent.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	2003	2003	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	Amnesty	Amnesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	International	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	critical	critical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	prosecutions	prosecution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
17	violations	violation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	committed	commit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	compound	_	_
28	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
34	impartial	impartial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a Amnesty International report |  |  |  |  | police courts *obl*; critical *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | scarce few prosecutions for rights violations |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **commit** | participle |  | rights violations *not said here* |  |  |  | by security forces | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **consider** | present · passive |  | police courts |  |  |  | impartial *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |

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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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