Dominican Republic, sentence 214
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.
A significant increase in crime, government corruption and a weak justice system threatened to overshadow their administrative period.
What happens: threaten, overshadow · To what, where: weak justice system, administrative period, significant increase
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 increase | det |
| 2 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 increase | amod |
| 3 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 crime | case |
| 5 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 increase | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 corruption | punct |
| 7 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 corruption | compound |
| 8 | corruption | corruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 increase | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 system | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 system | det |
| 11 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 system | amod |
| 12 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 system | compound |
| 13 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 increase | conj |
| 14 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 system | acl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 overshadow | mark |
| 16 | overshadow | overshadow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 threatened | xcomp |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 period | nmod:poss |
| 18 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 period | amod |
| 19 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 overshadow | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 increase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | participle | a weak justice system not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | overshadow not said to happen | to-infinitive | increase's administrative period | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent period=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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