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title: Haitian Creole is the largest minority language in the Dominican Rep… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: Haitian Creole is the largest minority language in the Dominican Republic and is spoken by Haitian immigrants and their descendants. Who acts: Haitian Creole, Haitian immigrants. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 452

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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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Haitian Creole is the largest minority language in the Dominican Republic and is spoken by Haitian immigrants and their descendants.

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**Who acts:** Haitian Creole, Haitian immigrants · **What happens:** be, speak · **To what, where:** largest minority language, Dominican Republic · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Haitian Creole, Haitian 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:452
# text = Haitian Creole is the largest minority language in the Dominican Republic and is spoken by Haitian immigrants and their descendants.
1	Haitian	haitian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Creole	Creole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	minority	minority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Dominican	Dominican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Haitian	haitian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Haitian Creole | the largest minority language |  | the Dominican Republic |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive | Haitian immigrants and immigrants's descendants |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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