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title: During the struggle for independence, before Peru or Ecuador became… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: During the struggle for independence, before Peru or Ecuador became independent, areas of the former Vice Royalty of New Granada declared themselves independent from Spain. Who acts: Peru, areas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ecuador, sentence 77

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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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During the struggle for independence, before Peru or Ecuador became independent, areas of the former Vice Royalty of New Granada declared themselves independent from Spain.

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**Who acts:** Peru, areas · **What happens:** become, declare · **To what, where:** wars

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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 (Peru, areas), 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:77
# text = During the struggle for independence, before Peru or Ecuador became independent, areas of the former Vice Royalty of New Granada declared themselves independent from Spain.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	Peru	Peru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
12	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Vice	Vice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Royalty	Royalty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Granada	Granada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Peru or Ecuador |  |  |  |  | independent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | areas of the former Vice Royalty of New Granada | wars *= war* |  |  | during the struggle for independence | independent *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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