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title: Category 5 Hurricane Maria struck the island in 2017 and caused loss… — Dominica · tree and pragmatics
description: Category 5 Hurricane Maria struck the island in 2017 and caused losses of approximately US$930 million or 226% of GDP. Who acts: Category. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominica, sentence 161

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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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Category 5 Hurricane Maria struck the island in 2017 and caused losses of approximately US$930 million or 226% of GDP.

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**Who acts:** Category · **What happens:** strike, cause · **To what, where:** island, 2017, losses

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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 (Category), 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:161
# text = Category 5 Hurricane Maria struck the island in 2017 and caused losses of approximately US$930 million or 226% of GDP.
1	Category	category	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	Hurricane	Hurricane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Maria	Maria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	losses	loss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	$	$	SYM	$	_	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	930	930	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	_
18	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	226	226	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	GDP	GDP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | Category | the island |  | 2017 |  | Hurricane *nsubj* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Patient |
| 2 | **cause** | past | Category *not said here* | losses |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition loss=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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