Dominican Republic, sentence 106
From Wikipedia, «Dominican Republic», 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.
United States President Theodore Roosevelt sought to prevent European intervention, largely to protect the routes to the future Panama Canal.
Who acts: Theodore · What happens: seek, prevent, protect · To what, where: European intervention, routes
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dominican Republic». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theodore), 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 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 States | amod |
| 2 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 President | compound |
| 3 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Theodore | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Theodore | Theodore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sought | nsubj |
| 5 | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Theodore | flat |
| 6 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 prevent | mark |
| 8 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sought | xcomp |
| 9 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 intervention | amod |
| 10 | intervention | intervention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prevent | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 protect | punct |
| 12 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 14 protect | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 protect | mark |
| 14 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 prevent | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 routes | det |
| 16 | routes | route | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 protect | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 future | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 future | det |
| 19 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 protect | obl |
| 20 | Panama | Panama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Canal | compound |
| 21 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 future | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Theodore States President | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | prevent not said to happen | to-infinitive | Theodore States President not said here | European intervention | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer intervention=Theme | ||||
| 3 | protect | to-infinitive | Theodore States President not said here | the routes | to the future; largely property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent route=Beneficiary |
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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