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title: This makes Dominica a destination for tourists interested in whale-w… — Dominica · tree and pragmatics
description: This makes Dominica a destination for tourists interested in whale-watching. Who acts: This. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominica, sentence 173

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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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This makes Dominica a destination for tourists interested in whale-watching.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** make, watch · **To what, where:** destination, 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: who acts (This), 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:173
# text = This makes Dominica a destination for tourists interested in whale-watching.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Dominica	Dominica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	destination	destination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tourists	tourist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | This | a destination | Dominica |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset dominica=Beneficiary destination=Product |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  | whale *compound* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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