Dominican Republic, sentence 509
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 have been accusations that some Haitian immigrants work in slavery-like conditions and are severely exploited.
Who acts: that · What happens: have, be, work, exploit · To what, where: accusations
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 (that), 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 have | expl |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 accusations | cop |
| 4 | accusations | accusation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 work | nsubj |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 immigrants | det |
| 7 | Haitian | haitian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 immigrants | amod |
| 8 | immigrants | immigrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 work | nsubj |
| 9 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 accusations | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 conditions | case |
| 11 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 like | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 slavery | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 conditions | amod |
| 14 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 work | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 exploited | cc |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 exploited | aux:pass |
| 17 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 18 exploited | advmod |
| 18 | exploited | exploit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 work | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | participle | accusations | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work | present | that | in like conditions; some Haitian immigrants nsubj | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in condition=Theme | ||||
| 4 | exploit | present · passive | that not said here | severely property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP» |
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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