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title: Historically, the painting of this time were centered around images… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: Historically, the painting of this time were centered around images connected to national independence, historical scenes, portraits but also landscapes and images of still life. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 597

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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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Historically, the painting of this time were centered around images connected to national independence, historical scenes, portraits but also landscapes and images of still life.

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**What happens:** center, connect, image · **To what, where:** painting, images, life

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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: 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:597
# text = Historically, the painting of this time were centered around images connected to national independence, historical scenes, portraits but also landscapes and images of still life.
1	Historically	historically	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	centered	center	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	portraits	portrait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	landscapes	landscape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **center** | past · passive |  | the painting of this time |  | images and historical scenes and portraits but landscapes and images of life |  | historically *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **connect** | participle |  | images and historical scenes and portraits but landscapes and images of life *not said here* |  |  |  | to national independence | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to independence=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **image** |  |  | life |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition 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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