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title: The UK, France and the Netherlands set up shipping and air lifts to… — Dominica · tree and pragmatics
description: The UK, France and the Netherlands set up shipping and air lifts to take aid to the island, the scale of destruction having left most people homeless. Who acts: UK, air, destruction. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominica, sentence 134

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From Wikipedia, [«Dominica»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominica), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The UK, France and the Netherlands set up shipping and air lifts to take aid to the island, the scale of destruction having left most people homeless.

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**Who acts:** UK, air, destruction · **What happens:** set up, lift, take, have, leave · **To what, where:** shipping, aid, island, most people

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dominica». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UK, air, destruction), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Dominica:134
# text = The UK, France and the Netherlands set up shipping and air lifts to take aid to the island, the scale of destruction having left most people homeless.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	shipping	shipping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lifts	lift	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	_
27	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	homeless	homeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set up** | past | the UK and France and the Netherlands | shipping |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient shipping=Result |
| 2 | **lift** | present | air |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | air *not said here* | aid |  | the island |  | the scale of destruction *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent aid=Theme to island=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | destruction *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | participle | destruction *not said here* | most people |  |  |  | homeless *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Dominica», 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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