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title: After establishing himself in the US, de la Renta opened boutiques a… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: After establishing himself in the US, de la Renta opened boutiques across the country. Who acts: de. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 628

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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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After establishing himself in the US, de la Renta opened boutiques across the country.

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**Who acts:** de · **What happens:** establish, open · **To what, where:** Oscar, boutiques, country

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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 (de), 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:628
# text = After establishing himself in the US, de la Renta opened boutiques across the country.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	establishing	establish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	nsubj	_	_
9	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	Renta	Renta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	boutiques	boutique	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	across	across	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | gerund | de *not said here* | Oscar |  |  |  | in the US | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **open** | past | de | boutiques |  | the country |  | Renta *nsubj* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boutique=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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