--- title: Due to mixed race Dominicans (and most Dominicans in general) being… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics description: Due to mixed race Dominicans (and most Dominicans in general) being a mix of mainly European and African, with lesser amounts of Indigenous ancestry, they could be described as "Mulatto" or "Tri-racial". Who acts: mix. 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Due to mixed race Dominicans (and most Dominicans in general) being a mix of mainly European and African, with lesser amounts of Indigenous ancestry, they could be described as "Mulatto" or "Tri-racial". **Who acts:** mix · **What happens:** be, describe, amount · **To what, where:** mix, Dominicans, Indigenous ancestry 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 (mix), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:429 # text = Due to mixed race Dominicans (and most Dominicans in general) being a mix of mainly European and African, with lesser amounts of Indigenous ancestry, they could be described as "Mulatto" or "Tri-racial". 1 Due due ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 4 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 mixed mixed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 5 Dominicans Dominican PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 Dominicans Dominican PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 13 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 mix mix NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 nmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 lesser less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 24 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 Indigenous indigenous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 ancestry ancestry NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 described describe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Mulatto Mulatto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 Tri Tri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 racial racial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | gerund | | a mix and lesser amounts of Indigenous ancestry | | | | due mixed race Dominicans and most Dominicans in general; of European; lesser amounts of Indigenous ancestry *conj* | tree rules | | 2 | **describe** | could · passive | a mix and lesser amounts of Indigenous ancestry *not said here* | Dominicans *= dominican* | | | | as Mulatto | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as mulatto=Attribute | | 3 | **amount** | | | Indigenous ancestry | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 428](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dominican_Republic/428/) - next →: [sentence 430](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dominican_Republic/430/) - ↑ back to [Dominican Republic](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dominican_Republic/)