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title: After Ecuador's separation, the Department of Cauca voluntarily deci… — Ecuador · tree and pragmatics
description: After Ecuador's separation, the Department of Cauca voluntarily decided to unite itself with Ecuador due to instability in the central government of Bogota. Who acts: Department, Ecuador. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ecuador» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ecuador, sentence 96

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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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After Ecuador's separation, the Department of Cauca voluntarily decided to unite itself with Ecuador due to instability in the central government of Bogota.

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**Who acts:** Department, Ecuador · **What happens:** decide, unite, separate · **To what, where:** Department, central government

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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 (Department, Ecuador), 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:96
# text = After Ecuador's separation, the Department of Cauca voluntarily decided to unite itself with Ecuador due to instability in the central government of Bogota.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Cauca	Cauca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	voluntarily	voluntarily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	unite	unite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	instability	instability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Bogota	Bogota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past | the Department of Cauca |  |  |  | after Ecuador's separation | voluntarily *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **unite** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Department of Cauca *not said here* | Department |  | the central government of Bogota |  | with Ecuador; due instability | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient with ecuador=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **separate** |  | Ecuador |  |  |  |  |  | nom separation «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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