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title: Positioned above the port town of Puerto Plata with about 600 troops… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: Positioned above the port town of Puerto Plata with about 600 troops brought by two cruisers, Bordas faced well-entrenched insurgents, leading to considerable fighting and casualties on both sides. Who acts: Bordas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmati
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 116

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From Wikipedia, [«Dominican Republic»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic), 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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Positioned above the port town of Puerto Plata with about 600 troops brought by two cruisers, Bordas faced well-entrenched insurgents, leading to considerable fighting and casualties on both sides.

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**Who acts:** Bordas · **What happens:** position, bring, face, entrench, lead · **To what, where:** port town, 600 troops, entrenched insurgents

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dominican Republic». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bordas), 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:Dominican_Republic:116
# text = Positioned above the port town of Puerto Plata with about 600 troops brought by two cruisers, Bordas faced well-entrenched insurgents, leading to considerable fighting and casualties on both sides.
1	Positioned	position	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	above	above	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Puerto	Puerto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Plata	Plata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	600	600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	obl:agent	_	_
13	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	cruisers	cruiser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Bordas	Bordas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	entrenched	entrench	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	insurgents	insurgent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	casualties	casualty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **position** | participle |  |  |  | the port town of Puerto |  | 600 troops *obl:agent* | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent above town=Destination |
| 2 | **bring** | participle |  | 600 troops *not said here* |  |  |  | by two cruisers | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **face** | past | Bordas | entrenched insurgents |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent insurgent=Destination |
| 4 | **entrench** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lead** | gerund | Bordas *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to considerable fighting and casualties on both sides | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to fighting=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, «Dominican Republic», 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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