Dominican Republic, sentence 248
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.
There are many small offshore islands and cays that form part of the Dominican territory.
Who acts: many small offshore islands · What happens: be, form · To what, where: part
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 (many small offshore islands), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 islands | amod |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 islands | amod |
| 5 | offshore | offshore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 islands | amod |
| 6 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cays | cc |
| 8 | cays | cay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 islands | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 form | nsubj |
| 10 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 islands | acl:relcl |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 form | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 territory | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 territory | det |
| 14 | Dominican | Dominican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 territory | compound |
| 15 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | many small offshore islands and cays | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | present | many small offshore islands and cays | part of the Dominican territory | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme |
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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