Dominican Republic, sentence 452
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.
Haitian Creole is the largest minority language in the Dominican Republic and is spoken by Haitian immigrants and their descendants.
Who acts: Haitian Creole, Haitian immigrants · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: largest minority language, Dominican Republic · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Haitian Creole, Haitian immigrants), 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 | Haitian | haitian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Creole | amod |
| 2 | Creole | Creole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 language | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 language | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 language | det |
| 5 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 language | amod |
| 6 | minority | minority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 language | compound |
| 7 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Republic | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Republic | det |
| 10 | Dominican | Dominican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Republic | compound |
| 11 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 language | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spoken | cc |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 spoken | aux:pass |
| 14 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 language | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 immigrants | case |
| 16 | Haitian | haitian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 immigrants | amod |
| 17 | immigrants | immigrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 spoken | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 descendants | cc |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 descendants | nmod:poss |
| 20 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 immigrants | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 language | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Haitian Creole | the largest minority language | the Dominican Republic | tree rules | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present · passive | Haitian immigrants and immigrants's descendants | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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.
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