Dominican Republic, sentence 453
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 is a community of a few thousand people whose ancestors spoke Samaná English in the Samaná Peninsula.
Who acts: community, ancestors · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: Samaná English, Samaná Peninsula · 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 (community, ancestors), 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 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 community | det |
| 4 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 people | nummod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 community | nmod |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spoke | nsubj |
| 12 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 people | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Samaná | Samaná | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 English | compound |
| 14 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Peninsula | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Peninsula | det |
| 17 | Samaná | Samaná | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Peninsula | compound |
| 18 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a community of a few thousand people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | ancestors | Samaná English | the Samaná Peninsula | tree rules |
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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