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title: Haitians burn wood charcoal for 60% of their domestic energy product… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: Haitians burn wood charcoal for 60% of their domestic energy production. Who acts: Haitians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 515

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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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Haitians burn wood charcoal for 60% of their domestic energy production.

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**Who acts:** Haitians · **What happens:** burn, produce · **To what, where:** wood charcoal

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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 (Haitians), 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:515
# text = Haitians burn wood charcoal for 60% of their domestic energy production.
1	Haitians	haitian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	burn	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present | Haitians | wood charcoal |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent charcoal=Theme |
| 2 | **produce** |  | Haitians *= haitian* |  |  |  |  |  | nom production «act transitive»: poss=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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