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title: By the time of the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697, which ceded the wester… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: By the time of the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697, which ceded the western one-third of the island to France, the population of Santo Domingo consisted of a few thousand whites, approximately 30,000 black slaves, and a few Taínos. Who acts: western one third. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 51

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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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By the time of the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697, which ceded the western one-third of the island to France, the population of Santo Domingo consisted of a few thousand whites, approximately 30,000 black slaves, and a few Taínos.

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**Who acts:** western one third · **What happens:** cede, consist · **To what, where:** few Taínos, 30,000 black slaves

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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 (western one third), 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:51
# text = By the time of the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697, which ceded the western one-third of the island to France, the population of Santo Domingo consisted of a few thousand whites, approximately 30,000 black slaves, and a few Taínos.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ryswick	Ryswick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1697	1697	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ceded	cede	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Santo	Santo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	Domingo	Domingo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	consisted	consist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	whites	white	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	30,000	30,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
39	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	Taínos	Taínos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cede** | past |  | a few Taínos |  |  | time | of the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697; which *nsubj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **consist** | past | the western one third of the island to France | 30,000 black slaves |  |  |  | of thousand whites; the population of Santo *nsubj* | 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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