Dominican Republic, sentence 116
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.
Positioned above the port town of Puerto Plata with about 600 troops brought by two cruisers, Bordas faced well-entrenched insurgents, leading to considerable fighting and casualties on both sides.
Who acts: Bordas · What happens: position, bring, face, entrench, lead · To what, where: port town, 600 troops, entrenched insurgents
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 (Bordas), 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 | Positioned | position | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | above | above | ADP | _ | 5 town | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 4 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 town | compound |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Positioned | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Puerto | case |
| 7 | Puerto | Puerto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 town | nmod |
| 8 | Plata | Plata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Puerto | flat |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 troops | case |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 600 | advmod |
| 11 | 600 | 600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 troops | nummod |
| 12 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 Positioned | obl:agent |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 troops | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 cruisers | case |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 cruisers | nummod |
| 16 | cruisers | cruiser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 brought | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 faced | punct |
| 18 | Bordas | Bordas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 faced | nsubj |
| 19 | faced | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Positioned | conj |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 entrenched | advmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 well | punct |
| 22 | entrenched | entrench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 insurgents | amod |
| 23 | insurgents | insurgent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 faced | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 leading | punct |
| 25 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 faced | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 fighting | case |
| 27 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fighting | amod |
| 28 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leading | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 casualties | cc |
| 30 | casualties | casualty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fighting | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 sides | case |
| 32 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 sides | det |
| 33 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 casualties | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Positioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | position | participle | the port town of Puerto | 600 troops obl:agent | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent above town=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bring | participle | 600 troops not said here | by two cruisers | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | face | past | Bordas | entrenched insurgents | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent insurgent=Destination | ||||
| 4 | entrench | participle | well property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | lead | gerund | Bordas not said here | to considerable fighting and casualties on both sides | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to fighting=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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