Dominican Republic, sentence 278
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Elections are held every two years, alternating between the presidential elections, which are held in years evenly divisible by four, and the congressional and municipal elections, which are held in even-numbered years not divisible by four. "
What happens: hold, alternate, divisible, number · To what, where: Elections, presidential elections, congressional elections
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 | Elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 held | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | aux:pass |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 years | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 held | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 alternating | punct |
| 8 | alternating | alternate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 held | advcl |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 elections | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 elections | det |
| 11 | presidential | presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 elections | amod |
| 12 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 alternating | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 held | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 held | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 held | aux:pass |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 elections | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 years | case |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 divisible | obl |
| 19 | evenly | evenly | ADV | _ | 20 divisible | advmod |
| 20 | divisible | divisible | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 held | parataxis |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 four | case |
| 22 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 divisible | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 elections | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 elections | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 elections | det |
| 26 | congressional | congressional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 elections | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 municipal | cc |
| 28 | municipal | municipal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 congressional | conj |
| 29 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 held | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 held | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 held | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 held | aux:pass |
| 33 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 elections | acl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 years | case |
| 35 | even | even | ADV | _ | 37 numbered | advmod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 even | punct |
| 37 | numbered | number | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 years | amod |
| 38 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 held | obl |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 divisible | advmod |
| 40 | divisible | divisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 held | advcl |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 four | case |
| 42 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 held | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present · passive | Elections | year | the congressional elections obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | alternate | gerund | between the presidential elections | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | hold | present · passive | the presidential elections | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | divisible | present | year | by four; evenly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hold | present · passive | the congressional elections | year | by four | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by four=Location | |||
| 6 | number | participle | vn classify-29.10 «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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Dominican Republic», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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