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title: Two other national highways serve as spur (DR-5) or alternative rout… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: Two other national highways serve as spur (DR-5) or alternative routes (DR-4). Who acts: Two other national highways. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 391

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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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Two other national highways serve as spur (DR-5) or alternative routes (DR-4).

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**Who acts:** Two other national highways · **What happens:** serve

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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 (Two other national highways), 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:391
# text = Two other national highways serve as spur (DR-5) or alternative routes (DR-4).
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	highways	highway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	serve	serve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	spur	spur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	DR	DR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	alternative	alternative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	routes	route	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	DR	DR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | present | Two other national highways |  |  |  |  | as spur or alternative routes | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as spur=Attribute |

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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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