Dominican Republic, sentence 54
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.
In 1795, Spain ceded Santo Domingo to France by the Treaty of Basel as a result of its defeat in the War of the Pyrenees.
Who acts: Spain, result · What happens: cede, result, defeat · To what, where: Santo, France, 1795, defeat, War
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 (Spain, result), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1795 | case |
| 2 | 1795 | 1795 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ceded | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1795 | punct |
| 4 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ceded | nsubj |
| 5 | ceded | cede | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Santo | Santo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ceded | obj |
| 7 | Domingo | Domingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Santo | flat |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 France | case |
| 9 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ceded | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Treaty | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Treaty | det |
| 12 | Treaty | Treaty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ceded | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Basel | case |
| 14 | Basel | Basel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Treaty | nmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 result | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 result | det |
| 17 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ceded | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 defeat | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 defeat | nmod:poss |
| 20 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 result | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 War | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 War | det |
| 23 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 defeat | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Pyrenees | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Pyrenees | det |
| 26 | Pyrenees | Pyrenees | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 War | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ceded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cede | past | Spain | Santo | France | 1795 | by the Treaty of Basel; as a result of result's defeat in the War of the Pyrenees | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent santo=Theme to france=Goal | |
| 2 | result | result's defeat in the War of the Pyrenees | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | defeat | result | the War of the Pyrenees | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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