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title: The first president of Ecuador was the Venezuelan-born Juan José Flo… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: The first president of Ecuador was the Venezuelan-born Juan José Flores, who was ultimately deposed. Who acts: first president. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ecuador, sentence 59

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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 first president of Ecuador was the Venezuelan-born Juan José Flores, who was ultimately deposed.

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**Who acts:** first president · **What happens:** bear, be, depose · **To what, where:** born Juan José

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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 (first president), 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:59
# text = The first president of Ecuador was the Venezuelan-born Juan José Flores, who was ultimately deposed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	Venezuelan	Venezuelan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
11	Juan	Juan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	José	José	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	Flores	Flores	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	deposed	depose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the first president of Ecuador | the born Juan José |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **depose** | past · passive |  | the born Juan José |  |  |  | ultimately *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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