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title: The Dominican Republic celebrates Dia de la Altagracia on January 21… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dominican Republic celebrates Dia de la Altagracia on January 21 in honor of its patroness, Duarte's Day on January 26 in honor of one of its founding fathers, Independence Day on February 27, Restoration Day on August 16, Virgen de las Mercedes on September 24, and Constitution Day on November 
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 583

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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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The Dominican Republic celebrates Dia de la Altagracia on January 21 in honor of its patroness, Duarte's Day on January 26 in honor of one of its founding fathers, Independence Day on February 27, Restoration Day on August 16, Virgen de las Mercedes on September 24, and Constitution Day on November 6.

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**Who acts:** Dominican Republic, Independence Day · **What happens:** celebrate, la, honor · **To what, where:** Dia, honor, Day, patroness

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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 (Dominican Republic, Independence Day), 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:583
# text = The Dominican Republic celebrates Dia de la Altagracia on January 21 in honor of its patroness, Duarte's Day on January 26 in honor of one of its founding fathers, Independence Day on February 27, Restoration Day on August 16, Virgen de las Mercedes on September 24, and Constitution Day on November 6.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Dominican	Dominican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	celebrates	celebrate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Dia	Dia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	appos	_	_
8	Altagracia	Altagracia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	patroness	patroness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	Duarte	Duarte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	founding	founding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	Independence	Independence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:unmarked	_	_
37	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	Restoration	Restoration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	Virgen	Virgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
46	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	45	flat:foreign	_	_
47	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	acl:relcl	_	_
48	Mercedes	Mercedes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod:unmarked	_	_
51	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	appos	_	_
56	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
58	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	57	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | present | the Dominican Republic | Dia |  | honor of honor's patroness | Duarte's Day on January  26 in honor of one of honor's founding fathers |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dia=Theme |
| 2 | **la** |  | Independence Day on 27  February and Restoration Day on August | Duarte's Day on January  26 in honor of one of honor's founding fathers *not said here* |  |  |  | Mercedes on 24  September *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **honor** |  |  | honor's patroness |  |  |  |  | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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