Dominican Republic, sentence 341
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 large Dominican diaspora exists, mostly in the United States, contributes to development, sending billions of dollars to Dominican families in remittances.
Who acts: large Dominican diaspora · What happens: exist, contribute, send · To what, where: United States, development, billions, remittances
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 (large Dominican diaspora), 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 | 4 diaspora | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 diaspora | amod |
| 3 | Dominican | dominican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 diaspora | amod |
| 4 | diaspora | diaspora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exists | nsubj |
| 5 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 States | punct |
| 7 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 11 States | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 States | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 States | det |
| 10 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 States | amod |
| 11 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 exists | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 contributes | punct |
| 13 | contributes | contribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 exists | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 development | case |
| 15 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 contributes | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sending | punct |
| 17 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 contributes | advcl |
| 18 | billions | billion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sending | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dollars | case |
| 20 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 billions | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 families | case |
| 22 | Dominican | Dominican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 families | compound |
| 23 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sending | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 remittances | case |
| 25 | remittances | remittance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sending | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | present | a large Dominican diaspora | the United States | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in state=Location | ||||
| 2 | contribute | present | a large Dominican diaspora not said here | development | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to development=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | send | gerund | a large Dominican diaspora not said here | billions of dollars | remittances | to Dominican families | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent billion=Theme to family=Destination |
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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