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title: They were recorded as recaptured and punished with 100 lashes applie… — Dominica · tree and pragmatics
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# Dominica, sentence 65

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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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They were recorded as recaptured and punished with 100 lashes applied to the males and 50 for the females.

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**What happens:** record, recapture, punish, apply · **To what, where:** slaves, 100 lashes

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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: 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:65
# text = They were recorded as recaptured and punished with 100 lashes applied to the males and 50 for the females.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	recaptured	recapture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	lashes	lash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | past · passive |  | slaves *= slave* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **recapture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **punish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with 100 lashes | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent with lash=Theme |
| 4 | **apply** | participle |  | 100 lashes *not said here* |  |  |  | to the males; for the females | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for female=Eventuality |

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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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