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title: In 1838, Juan Pablo Duarte founded a secret society called La Trinit… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1838, Juan Pablo Duarte founded a secret society called La Trinitaria, which sought the complete independence of Santo Domingo without any foreign intervention. Who acts: Juan Pablo, La. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 62

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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 1838, Juan Pablo Duarte founded a secret society called La Trinitaria, which sought the complete independence of Santo Domingo without any foreign intervention.

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**Who acts:** Juan Pablo, La · **What happens:** found, call, seek · **To what, where:** secret society, 1838, complete independence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Juan Pablo, La), 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:62
# text = In 1838, Juan Pablo Duarte founded a secret society called La Trinitaria, which sought the complete independence of Santo Domingo without any foreign intervention.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1838	1838	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Juan	Juan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Pablo	Pablo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Duarte	Duarte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
13	Trinitaria	Trinitaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Santo	Santo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	Domingo	Domingo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	without	without	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	intervention	intervention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past | Juan Pablo | a secret society |  | 1838 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent society=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a secret society *not said here* |  |  |  | La *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seek** | past | La | the complete independence of Santo |  |  |  | without any foreign intervention | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |

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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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