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title: A large Dominican diaspora exists, mostly in the United States, cont… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: A large Dominican diaspora exists, mostly in the United States, contributes to development, sending billions of dollars to Dominican families in remittances. Who acts: large Dominican diaspora. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 341

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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 large Dominican diaspora exists, mostly in the United States, contributes to development, sending billions of dollars to Dominican families in remittances.

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**Who acts:** large Dominican diaspora · **What happens:** exist, contribute, send · **To what, where:** United States, development, billions, remittances

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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 (large Dominican diaspora), 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:341
# text = A large Dominican diaspora exists, mostly in the United States, contributes to development, sending billions of dollars to Dominican families in remittances.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Dominican	dominican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	diaspora	diaspora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	contributes	contribute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	billions	billion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Dominican	Dominican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	remittances	remittance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | present | a large Dominican diaspora |  |  | the United States |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in state=Location |
| 2 | **contribute** | present | a large Dominican diaspora *not said here* |  | development |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to development=Recipient |
| 3 | **send** | gerund | a large Dominican diaspora *not said here* | billions of dollars |  | remittances |  | to Dominican families | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent billion=Theme to family=Destination |

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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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