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title: A significant increase in crime, government corruption and a weak ju… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: A significant increase in crime, government corruption and a weak justice system threatened to overshadow their administrative period. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 214

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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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A significant increase in crime, government corruption and a weak justice system threatened to overshadow their administrative period.

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**What happens:** threaten, overshadow · **To what, where:** weak justice system, administrative period, significant increase

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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: 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:214
# text = A significant increase in crime, government corruption and a weak justice system threatened to overshadow their administrative period.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	overshadow	overshadow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	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 | **threaten** | participle |  | a weak justice system *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **overshadow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | increase's administrative period |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent period=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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