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title: Angela did not start her race, and Gary pulled out several hundred m… — Dominica · tree and pragmatics
description: Angela did not start her race, and Gary pulled out several hundred meters into his race. as of 2022, they are Dominica's only Winter Olympic athletes. Who acts: Angela, Gary, race. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominica, sentence 366

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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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Angela did not start her race, and Gary pulled out several hundred meters into his race. as of 2022, they are Dominica's only Winter Olympic athletes.

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**Who acts:** Angela, Gary, race · **What happens:** not start, pull out, be, race · **To what, where:** race, hundred meters, Winter Olympic athletes

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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 (Angela, Gary, race), 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:366
# text = Angela did not start her race, and Gary pulled out several hundred meters into his race. as of 2022, they are Dominica's only Winter Olympic athletes.
1	Angela	Angela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	Gary	Gary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	meters	meter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
25	Dominica	Dominica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	Olympic	olympic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	athletes	athlete	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **start** | past · do-support | Angela | Angela's race |  |  |  | as 2022 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pull out** | past | Gary | hundred meters |  | Gary's race |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | race | Dominica's Winter Olympic athletes |  |  |  | Dominica *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **race** |  | Angela |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **race** |  | Gary |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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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