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title: They deliberately come during their last weeks of pregnancy to obtai… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: They deliberately come during their last weeks of pregnancy to obtain medical attention for childbirth, since Dominican public hospitals do not refuse medical services based on nationality or legal status. Who acts: immigrants, Dominican public hospitals. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republi
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 511

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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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They deliberately come during their last weeks of pregnancy to obtain medical attention for childbirth, since Dominican public hospitals do not refuse medical services based on nationality or legal status.

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**Who acts:** immigrants, Dominican public hospitals · **What happens:** come, obtain, not refuse, base · **To what, where:** medical attention, medical services, nationality

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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 (immigrants, Dominican public hospitals), 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:511
# text = They deliberately come during their last weeks of pregnancy to obtain medical attention for childbirth, since Dominican public hospitals do not refuse medical services based on nationality or legal status.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	during	during	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	pregnancy	pregnancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	childbirth	childbirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	Dominican	Dominican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
24	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	nationality	nationality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | immigrants *= immigrant* |  |  |  | week | deliberately *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | immigrants *= immigrant* *not said here* | medical attention |  |  |  | for childbirth | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent attention=Theme for childbirth=Asset |
| 3 | **not** **refuse** | present · do-support | Dominican public hospitals | medical services |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme |
| 4 | **base** | participle |  | medical services *not said here* |  | nationality or legal status |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on nationality=Source |

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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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