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title: The United States severed diplomatic relations with the Dominican Re… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: The United States severed diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic on August 26, 1960, and in January 1961 suspended the export of trucks, parts, crude oil, gasoline and other petroleum products. Who acts: United States. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 169

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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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The United States severed diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic on August 26, 1960, and in January 1961 suspended the export of trucks, parts, crude oil, gasoline and other petroleum products.

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**Who acts:** United States · **What happens:** sever, suspend · **To what, where:** diplomatic relations, 26, export

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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 (United States), 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:169
# text = The United States severed diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic on August 26, 1960, and in January 1961 suspended the export of trucks, parts, crude oil, gasoline and other petroleum products.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	severed	sever	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Dominican	Dominican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	1961	1961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	export	export	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	trucks	truck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	crude	crude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	gasoline	gasoline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	petroleum	petroleum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sever** | past | the United States | diplomatic relations |  | 26  August |  | with the Dominican Republic | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Theme |
| 2 | **suspend** | past | the United States *not said here* | the export of trucks and parts and crude oil and gasoline and other petroleum products |  |  | january |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent export=Theme |

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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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