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title: They were backed by Pedro Santana, a wealthy cattle rancher, who bec… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: They were backed by Pedro Santana, a wealthy cattle rancher, who became general of the army of the nascent republic. Who acts: Pedro, wealthy cattle rancher. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 66

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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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They were backed by Pedro Santana, a wealthy cattle rancher, who became general of the army of the nascent republic.

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**Who acts:** Pedro, wealthy cattle rancher · **What happens:** back, become · **To what, where:** members

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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 (Pedro, wealthy cattle rancher), 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:66
# text = They were backed by Pedro Santana, a wealthy cattle rancher, who became general of the army of the nascent republic.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	backed	back	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Pedro	Pedro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
6	Santana	Santana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	cattle	cattle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rancher	rancher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	nascent	nascent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **back** | past · passive | Pedro | members *= member* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | past | a wealthy cattle rancher |  |  |  |  | general *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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