Dominican Republic, sentence 160
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.
On November 25, 1960, Trujillo's henchmen killed three of the four Mirabal sisters, nicknamed Las Mariposas (The Butterflies).
Who acts: henchmen · What happens: kill, nickname · To what, where: three, 25
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 (henchmen), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 25 | case |
| 2 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 25 | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 killed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 1960 | punct |
| 5 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 25 | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 25 | punct |
| 7 | Trujillo | Trujillo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 henchmen | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Trujillo | case |
| 9 | henchmen | henchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 killed | nsubj |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 killed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sisters | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sisters | det |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sisters | nummod |
| 15 | Mirabal | Mirabal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sisters | compound |
| 16 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 three | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nicknamed | punct |
| 18 | nicknamed | nickname | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 killed | conj |
| 19 | Las | Las | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 nicknamed | xcomp |
| 20 | Mariposas | Mariposas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Las | flat |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 Butterflies | punct |
| 22 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Butterflies | det |
| 23 | Butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Las | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 Butterflies | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | Trujillo's henchmen | three of the four Mirabal sisters | 25 November | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme | |||
| 2 | nickname | participle | Trujillo's henchmen not said here | Las xcomp | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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