Santo Domingo, sentence 16
From Wikipedia, «Santo Domingo», 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.
Bartholomew Columbus founded the settlement and named it La Nueva Isabela, after La Isabela, an earlier settlement in the north named after the Queen of Spain Isabella I. In 1495 it was renamed "Santo Domingo", in honor of Saint Dominic.
Who acts: Bartholomew · What happens: found, name, rename, honor · To what, where: settlement, 1495, north, honor, Saint
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Santo Domingo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bartholomew), 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 | Bartholomew | Bartholomew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 founded | nsubj |
| 2 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bartholomew | flat |
| 3 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 settlement | det |
| 5 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 founded | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 named | cc |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 founded | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 named | obj |
| 9 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 named | xcomp |
| 10 | Nueva | Nueva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 La | flat |
| 11 | Isabela | Isabela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 La | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 La | punct |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 La | case |
| 14 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 La | list |
| 15 | Isabela | Isabela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 La | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 settlement | punct |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 settlement | det |
| 18 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 settlement | amod |
| 19 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 La | appos |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 north | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 north | det |
| 22 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 settlement | nmod |
| 23 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 north | acl |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 Queen | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Queen | det |
| 26 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 named | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 I. | case |
| 28 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Isabella | compound |
| 29 | Isabella | Isabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 I. | compound |
| 30 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Queen | nmod |
| 31 | In | in | ADP | _ | 32 1495 | case |
| 32 | 1495 | 1495 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 named | obl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 renamed | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 renamed | aux:pass |
| 35 | renamed | rename | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 founded | parataxis |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Santo | punct |
| 37 | Santo | Santo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 renamed | xcomp |
| 38 | Domingo | Domingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Santo | flat |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Santo | punct |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 honor | punct |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 honor | case |
| 42 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 renamed | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Saint | case |
| 44 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 honor | nmod |
| 45 | Dominic | Dominic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Saint | flat |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past | Bartholomew | the settlement | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent settlement=Patient | ||||
| 2 | name | past | Bartholomew not said here | settlement | 1495 | La after La xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 3 | name | participle | the north not said here | after the Queen of Isabella I. | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | rename | past · passive | settlement | honor of Saint | Santo xcomp | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | honor | Saint | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Santo Domingo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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