Dominica, sentence 105

From Wikipedia, «Dominica», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

By the middle of the 1980s, the economy had begun to recover, before weakening again due to a decrease in banana prices.

Who acts: economy · What happens: begin, recover, weaken

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dominica». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (economy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begun	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 1980s	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 1980s	det
6	1980s	1980s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	3 middle	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 middle	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 economy	det
9	economy	economy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begun	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 begun	aux
11	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 recover	mark
13	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 begun	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 weakening	punct
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 weakening	mark
16	weakening	weaken	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 recover	advcl
17	again	again	ADV	_	16 weakening	advmod
18	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	21 decrease	case
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 due	fixed
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 decrease	det
21	decrease	decrease	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 weakening	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 prices	case
23	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 prices	compound
24	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 decrease	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 begun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past · perfect	the economy		by the middle of the 1980s	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	recover	to-infinitive	the economy not said here			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	weaken	gerund	the economy not said here	again	due a decrease in banana prices	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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Pragmatics

Dominica, sentence 105