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title: The sector, however, is highly vulnerable to weather conditions and… — Dominica · tree and pragmatics
description: The sector, however, is highly vulnerable to weather conditions and to external events affecting commodity prices. Who acts: sector, external events. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominica, sentence 200

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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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The sector, however, is highly vulnerable to weather conditions and to external events affecting commodity prices.

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**Who acts:** sector, external events · **What happens:** be, affect · **To what, where:** commodity prices

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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 (sector, external events), 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:200
# text = The sector, however, is highly vulnerable to weather conditions and to external events affecting commodity prices.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	vulnerable	vulnerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	external	external	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	affecting	affect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	commodity	commodity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the sector |  |  |  |  | weather conditions and external events *nsubj*; highly, however, vulnerable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **affect** | gerund | external events *not said here* | commodity prices |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus price=Experiencer |

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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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