Dominican Republic, sentence 66
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.
They were backed by Pedro Santana, a wealthy cattle rancher, who became general of the army of the nascent republic.
Who acts: Pedro, wealthy cattle rancher · What happens: back, become · To what, where: members
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 (Pedro, wealthy cattle rancher), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 backed | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 backed | aux:pass |
| 3 | backed | back | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Pedro | case |
| 5 | Pedro | Pedro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 backed | obl:agent |
| 6 | Santana | Santana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Pedro | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rancher | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rancher | det |
| 9 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rancher | amod |
| 10 | cattle | cattle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rancher | amod |
| 11 | rancher | rancher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Pedro | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 became | nsubj |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rancher | acl:relcl |
| 15 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 became | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 army | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 army | det |
| 18 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 general | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 republic | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 republic | det |
| 21 | nascent | nascent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 republic | amod |
| 22 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 army | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 backed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back | past · passive | Pedro | members = member | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Agent | ||||
| 2 | become | past | a wealthy cattle rancher | general property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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