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title: Dominica has been nicknamed the "Nature Island of the Caribbean" for… — Dominica · tree and pragmatics
description: Dominica has been nicknamed the "Nature Island of the Caribbean" for its natural environment. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominica, sentence 14

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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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Dominica has been nicknamed the "Nature Island of the Caribbean" for its natural environment.

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**What happens:** nickname · **To what, where:** Dominica

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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: 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:14
# text = Dominica has been nicknamed the "Nature Island of the Caribbean" for its natural environment.
1	Dominica	Dominica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	nicknamed	nickname	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Nature	Nature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	environment	environment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nickname** | present · perfect · passive |  | Dominica |  |  |  | for island's natural environment; the Nature Island of the Caribbean *xcomp* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result |

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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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