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title: On November 25, 1960, Trujillo's henchmen killed three of the four M… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: On November 25, 1960, Trujillo's henchmen killed three of the four Mirabal sisters, nicknamed Las Mariposas (The Butterflies). Who acts: henchmen. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 160

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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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On November 25, 1960, Trujillo's henchmen killed three of the four Mirabal sisters, nicknamed Las Mariposas (The Butterflies).

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**Who acts:** henchmen · **What happens:** kill, nickname · **To what, where:** three, 25

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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 (henchmen), 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:160
# text = On November 25, 1960, Trujillo's henchmen killed three of the four Mirabal sisters, nicknamed Las Mariposas (The Butterflies).
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Trujillo	Trujillo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	Mirabal	Mirabal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	nicknamed	nickname	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
19	Las	Las	PROPN	NNP	Number=Plur	18	xcomp	_	_
20	Mariposas	Mariposas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | Trujillo's henchmen | three of the four Mirabal sisters |  | 25  November |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme |
| 2 | **nickname** | participle | Trujillo's henchmen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Las *xcomp* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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, «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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