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title: In January 2008, Dominica joined the Bolivarian Alternative for the… — Dominica · tree and pragmatics
description: In January 2008, Dominica joined the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas. Who acts: Dominica. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominica, sentence 182

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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 January 2008, Dominica joined the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas.

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**Who acts:** Dominica · **What happens:** join · **To what, where:** Bolivarian Alternative, 2008

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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 (Dominica), 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:182
# text = In January 2008, Dominica joined the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Dominica	Dominica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Bolivarian	Bolivarian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Alternative	Alternative	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | Dominica | the Bolivarian Alternative |  | 2008  January |  | for the Americas | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alternative=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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