Dominican Republic, sentence 218
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.
The Dominican Republic comprises the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola, the second-largest island in the Greater Antilles, with the Atlantic Ocean to the north and the Caribbean Sea to the south.
Who acts: Dominican Republic · What happens: comprise · To what, where: eastern five eighths
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 (Dominican Republic), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Republic | det |
| 2 | Dominican | Dominican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Republic | compound |
| 3 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 comprises | nsubj |
| 4 | comprises | comprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eighths | det |
| 6 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eighths | amod |
| 7 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 eighths | nummod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 five | punct |
| 9 | eighths | eighth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 comprises | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Hispaniola | case |
| 11 | Hispaniola | Hispaniola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 eighths | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 island | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 island | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 island | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 second | punct |
| 16 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 island | amod |
| 17 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Hispaniola | appos |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Antilles | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Antilles | det |
| 20 | Greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 Antilles | amod |
| 21 | Antilles | Antilles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 island | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Ocean | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 Ocean | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Ocean | det |
| 25 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Ocean | compound |
| 26 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 comprises | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 north | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 north | det |
| 29 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comprises | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Sea | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Sea | det |
| 32 | Caribbean | Caribbean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Sea | compound |
| 33 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 north | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 south | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 south | det |
| 36 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comprises | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comprises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comprise | present | the Dominican Republic | the eastern five eighths of Hispaniola | with the Atlantic Ocean; to the north and the Caribbean Sea; to the south | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eighth=Pivot |
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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