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title: In November 2009, the Dominican Republic became the first Latin Amer… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 371

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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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In November 2009, the Dominican Republic became the first Latin American country to pledge to include a "gender perspective" in every information and communications technology (ICT) initiative and policy developed by the government.

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**Who acts:** Dominican Republic · **What happens:** become, pledge, include, communication, develop · **To what, where:** first Latin American country, gender perspective, information, technology, initiative

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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 (Dominican Republic), 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:371
# text = In November 2009, the Dominican Republic became the first Latin American country to pledge to include a "gender perspective" in every information and communications technology (ICT) initiative and policy developed by the government.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Dominican	Dominican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
11	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	pledge	pledge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	include	include	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	gender	gender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	perspective	perspective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	communications	communication	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
28	technology	technology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	ICT	ICT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	initiative	initiative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **become** | past | the Dominican Republic | the first Latin American country |  |  | november |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pledge** | to-infinitive | the Dominican Republic *not said here* | the first Latin American country *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **include** | to-infinitive | the Dominican Republic *not said here* | a gender perspective |  |  |  | in every information *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent perspective=Theme in information=Goal |
| 4 | **communication** | present | the Dominican Republic *not said here* | technology and initiative and policy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **develop** | participle |  | initiative and policy *not said here* |  |  |  | the government *obl:agent* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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