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title: According to a 2017 estimate from the Dominican government, Dominica… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: According to a 2017 estimate from the Dominican government, Dominican Republic had a population of 10,189,895, of which 847,979 were immigrants or descendants of recent immigrants and 9,341,916 were ethnic Dominicans. Who acts: Dominican, 847,979 immigrants. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Repu
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 441

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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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According to a 2017 estimate from the Dominican government, Dominican Republic had a population of 10,189,895, of which 847,979 were immigrants or descendants of recent immigrants and 9,341,916 were ethnic Dominicans.

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**Who acts:** Dominican, 847,979 immigrants · **What happens:** accord, have, be · **To what, where:** 2017 estimate, population, 847,979 immigrants, ethnic Dominicans

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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, 847,979 immigrants), 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:441
# text = According to a 2017 estimate from the Dominican government, Dominican Republic had a population of 10,189,895, of which 847,979 were immigrants or descendants of recent immigrants and 9,341,916 were ethnic Dominicans.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	estimate	estimate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Dominican	Dominican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	Dominican	Dominican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	10,189,895	10,189,895	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
21	847,979	847,979	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	9,341,916	9,341,916	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Dominicans	Dominican	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund | Dominican *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a 2017 estimate from the Dominican government *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to estimate=Goal |
| 2 | **have** | past | Dominican | a population of 10,189,895 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | 847,979 immigrants or descendants of recent immigrants |  |  |  | descendants of recent immigrants *conj*; 9,341,916 *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | 847,979 immigrants or descendants of recent immigrants | ethnic Dominicans |  |  |  | which *obl* | tree rules |

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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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