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title: On February 27, 1844, the members of La Trinitaria declared independ… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: On February 27, 1844, the members of La Trinitaria declared independence from Haiti. Who acts: members. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 65

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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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On February 27, 1844, the members of La Trinitaria declared independence from Haiti.

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**Who acts:** members · **What happens:** declare · **To what, where:** independence, 27

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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 (members), 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:65
# text = On February 27, 1844, the members of La Trinitaria declared independence from Haiti.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	1844	1844	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	Trinitaria	Trinitaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Haiti	Haiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the members of La | independence |  | 27  February |  | from Haiti | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute |

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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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