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title: However, some public hospitals are in poor condition and often lack… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: However, some public hospitals are in poor condition and often lack necessary supplies to attend the high demand of patients. Who acts: public hospitals. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ecuador, sentence 532

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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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However, some public hospitals are in poor condition and often lack necessary supplies to attend the high demand of patients.

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**Who acts:** public hospitals · **What happens:** be, lack, attend, demand · **To what, where:** poor condition, necessary supplies, high demand, patients

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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 (public hospitals), 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:532
# text = However, some public hospitals are in poor condition and often lack necessary supplies to attend the high demand of patients.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	lack	lack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	supplies	supplies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some public hospitals |  |  | poor condition |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lack** | present | some public hospitals *not said here* | necessary supplies |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **attend** | to-infinitive | some public hospitals *not said here* | the high demand of patients |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme demand=Goal |
| 4 | **demand** |  |  | patients |  |  |  |  | nom demand «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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