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title: In 1795, Spain ceded Santo Domingo to France by the Treaty of Basel… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1795, Spain ceded Santo Domingo to France by the Treaty of Basel as a result of its defeat in the War of the Pyrenees. Who acts: Spain, result. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 54

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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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In 1795, Spain ceded Santo Domingo to France by the Treaty of Basel as a result of its defeat in the War of the Pyrenees.

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**Who acts:** Spain, result · **What happens:** cede, result, defeat · **To what, where:** Santo, France, 1795, defeat, War

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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 (Spain, result), 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:54
# text = In 1795, Spain ceded Santo Domingo to France by the Treaty of Basel as a result of its defeat in the War of the Pyrenees.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1795	1795	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ceded	cede	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Santo	Santo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Domingo	Domingo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Basel	Basel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Pyrenees	Pyrenees	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cede** | past | Spain | Santo | France | 1795 |  | by the Treaty of Basel; as a result of result's defeat in the War of the Pyrenees | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent santo=Theme to france=Goal |
| 2 | **result** |  |  | result's defeat in the War of the Pyrenees |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **defeat** |  | result |  |  | the War of the Pyrenees |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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