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title: In 1979, Hurricane David struck the island as a Category 4 hurricane… — Dominica · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1979, Hurricane David struck the island as a Category 4 hurricane, causing widespread and extreme damage. Who acts: Hurricane. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominica, sentence 153

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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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In 1979, Hurricane David struck the island as a Category 4 hurricane, causing widespread and extreme damage.

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**Who acts:** Hurricane · **What happens:** strike, cause · **To what, where:** island, 1979, widespread damage

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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 (Hurricane), 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:153
# text = In 1979, Hurricane David struck the island as a Category 4 hurricane, causing widespread and extreme damage.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1979	1979	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Hurricane	Hurricane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Category	category	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
16	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | Hurricane | the island |  | 1979 |  | as a Category hurricane | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Patient |
| 2 | **cause** | gerund | Hurricane *not said here* | widespread damage |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition damage=Patient |

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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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