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title: Currently the most successful football team in Ecuador is LDU Quito,… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: Currently the most successful football team in Ecuador is LDU Quito, and it is the only Ecuadorian team that has won the Copa Libertadores; they were also runners-up in the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup. Who acts: successful football team, football, only Ecuadorian team, teams. A sentence of Wikipedia's 
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# Ecuador, sentence 596

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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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Currently the most successful football team in Ecuador is LDU Quito, and it is the only Ecuadorian team that has won the Copa Libertadores; they were also runners-up in the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup.

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**Who acts:** successful football team, football, only Ecuadorian team, teams · **What happens:** be, win · **To what, where:** LDU, only Ecuadorian team, Copa Libertadores, runners, 2008 Club World Cup

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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 (successful football team, football, only Ecuadorian team, teams), 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:596
# text = Currently the most successful football team in Ecuador is LDU Quito, and it is the only Ecuadorian team that has won the Copa Libertadores; they were also runners-up in the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup.
1	Currently	currently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	LDU	LDU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	Quito	Quito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Ecuadorian	Ecuadorian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Copa	Copa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Libertadores	Libertadores	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
35	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	amod	_	_
36	FIFA	FIFA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	Club	Club	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
38	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the successful football team in Ecuador | LDU |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | football | the only Ecuadorian team |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **win** | present · perfect | the only Ecuadorian team | the Copa Libertadores |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent libertadores=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | past | teams *= team* | runners |  | the 2008 Club World Cup  FIFA |  |  | tree rules |

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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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