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title: Seraphin organised and led a splinter of the Dominica Labour Party—t… — Dominica · tree and pragmatics
description: Seraphin organised and led a splinter of the Dominica Labour Party—the Democratic Labour Party—into the 1980 general election and lost mainly because his nearly 13 month-long premiership was dominated by the effects of Category Five Hurricane David, which caused 56 deaths and untold damage across th
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# Dominica, sentence 93

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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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Seraphin organised and led a splinter of the Dominica Labour Party—the Democratic Labour Party—into the 1980 general election and lost mainly because his nearly 13 month-long premiership was dominated by the effects of Category Five Hurricane David, which caused 56 deaths and untold damage across the island.

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**Who acts:** Seraphin, effects, Category · **What happens:** organise, lead, lose, dominate, cause, effect · **To what, where:** 1980 general election, splinter, long premiership, 56 deaths, Category

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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 (Seraphin, effects, Category), 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:93
# text = Seraphin organised and led a splinter of the Dominica Labour Party—the Democratic Labour Party—into the 1980 general election and lost mainly because his nearly 13 month-long premiership was dominated by the effects of Category Five Hurricane David, which caused 56 deaths and untold damage across the island.
1	Seraphin	seraphin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	organised	organise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	splinter	splinter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Dominica	Dominica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Labour	Labour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Party	Party	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Democratic	Democratic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Labour	Labour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Party	Party	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
28	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	premiership	premiership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	dominated	dominate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Category	Category	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
42	Hurricane	Hurricane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
47	56	56	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	untold	untold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
52	across	across	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **organise** | participle | Seraphin |  |  | the 1980 general election |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | past | Seraphin *not said here* | a splinter of the Dominica Labour Party |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splinter=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | past | Seraphin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mainly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dominate** | past · passive | the effects of Category and Five Hurricane David | Seraphin's long premiership |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **cause** | past | Category and Five Hurricane David | 56 deaths and untold damage across the island |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient |
| 6 | **effect** |  |  | Category and Five Hurricane David |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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