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title: Among other notable Ecuadorian scientists and engineers are Lieutena… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: Among other notable Ecuadorian scientists and engineers are Lieutenant Jose Rodriguez Labandera, a pioneer who built the first submarine in Latin America in 1837; Reinaldo Espinosa Aguilar, a botanist and biologist of Andean flora; and José Aurelio Dueñas, a chemist and inventor of a method of texti
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# Ecuador, sentence 404

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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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Among other notable Ecuadorian scientists and engineers are Lieutenant Jose Rodriguez Labandera, a pioneer who built the first submarine in Latin America in 1837; Reinaldo Espinosa Aguilar, a botanist and biologist of Andean flora; and José Aurelio Dueñas, a chemist and inventor of a method of textile serigraphy.

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**Who acts:** pioneer · **What happens:** be, build · **To what, where:** Lieutenant Jose Rodriguez, first submarine, Latin America

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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 (pioneer), 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:404
# text = Among other notable Ecuadorian scientists and engineers are Lieutenant Jose Rodriguez Labandera, a pioneer who built the first submarine in Latin America in 1837; Reinaldo Espinosa Aguilar, a botanist and biologist of Andean flora; and José Aurelio Dueñas, a chemist and inventor of a method of textile serigraphy.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	notable	notable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Ecuadorian	ecuadorian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	engineers	engineer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	Lieutenant	Lieutenant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Jose	Jose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rodriguez	Rodriguez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	Labandera	Labandera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pioneer	pioneer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	submarine	submarine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1837	1837	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Reinaldo	Reinaldo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Espinosa	Espinosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
29	Aguilar	Aguilar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	botanist	botanist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	biologist	biologist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Andean	andean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	flora	flora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	José	José	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Aurelio	Aurelio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
42	Dueñas	Dueñas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	chemist	chemist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	inventor	inventor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	textile	textile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	serigraphy	serigraphy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Lieutenant Jose Rodriguez and Reinaldo Espinosa |  |  |  | a pioneer *appos*; Reinaldo Espinosa *conj*; a botanist and biologist of Andean flora *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | past | a pioneer | the first submarine |  | Latin America |  | in 1837 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent submarine=Product |

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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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