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title: However, Santana's forces took Santo Domingo on July 12, and they de… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: However, Santana's forces took Santo Domingo on July 12, and they declared Santana ruler of the Dominican Republic. Who acts: forces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dominican Republic, sentence 75

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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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However, Santana's forces took Santo Domingo on July 12, and they declared Santana ruler of the Dominican Republic.

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**Who acts:** forces · **What happens:** take, declare · **To what, where:** Santo, 12, Santana ruler

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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 (forces), 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:75
# text = However, Santana's forces took Santo Domingo on July 12, and they declared Santana ruler of the Dominican Republic.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Santana	Santana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Santo	Santo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Domingo	Domingo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	Santana	Santana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Dominican	Dominican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Santana's forces | Santo |  | 12  July |  | however *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent santo=Theme on 12=Destination |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | forces *= force* | Santana ruler of the Dominican Republic |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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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