Dominican Republic, sentence 429

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.

Due to mixed race Dominicans (and most Dominicans in general) being a mix of mainly European and African, with lesser amounts of Indigenous ancestry, they could be described as "Mulatto" or "Tri-racial".

Who acts: mix · What happens: be, describe, amount · To what, where: mix, Dominicans, Indigenous ancestry

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 (mix), 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	Due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	4 race	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 Due	fixed
3	mixed	mixed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 race	amod
4	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mix	obl
5	Dominicans	Dominican	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 race	nmod
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 Dominicans	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Dominicans	cc
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 Dominicans	amod
9	Dominicans	Dominican	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 Dominicans	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 general	case
11	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Dominicans	nmod
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 Dominicans	punct
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 mix	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mix	det
15	mix	mix	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 European	case
17	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	18 European	advmod
18	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mix	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 African	cc
20	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 European	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 amounts	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 amounts	case
23	lesser	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 amounts	amod
24	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mix	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 ancestry	case
26	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ancestry	amod
27	ancestry	ancestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 amounts	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 described	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 described	nsubj:pass
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 described	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 described	aux:pass
32	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 mix	acl
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 Mulatto	case
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 Mulatto	punct
35	Mulatto	Mulatto	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 described	obl
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 Mulatto	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 racial	cc
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 racial	punct
39	Tri	Tri	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 racial	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 Tri	punct
41	racial	racial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Mulatto	conj
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 racial	punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 mix	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		a mix and lesser amounts of Indigenous ancestry	due mixed race Dominicans and most Dominicans in general; of European; lesser amounts of Indigenous ancestry conj	tree rules
2	describe	could · passive	a mix and lesser amounts of Indigenous ancestry not said here	Dominicans = dominican	as Mulatto	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as mulatto=Attribute
3	amount			Indigenous ancestry		nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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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Pragmatics

Dominican Republic, sentence 429