--- title: Bartholomew Columbus founded the settlement and named it La Nueva Is… — Santo Domingo · tree and pragmatics description: Bartholomew Columbus founded the settlement and named it La Nueva Isabela, after La Isabela, an earlier settlement in the north named after the Queen of Spain Isabella I. In 1495 it was renamed "Santo Domingo", in honor of Saint Dominic. Who acts: Bartholomew. 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In 1495 it was renamed "Santo Domingo", in honor of Saint Dominic. **Who acts:** Bartholomew · **What happens:** found, name, rename, honor · **To what, where:** settlement, 1495, north, honor, Saint This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Santo Domingo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bartholomew), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Santo_Domingo:16 # text = Bartholomew Columbus founded the settlement and named it La Nueva Isabela, after La Isabela, an earlier settlement in the north named after the Queen of Spain Isabella I. In 1495 it was renamed "Santo Domingo", in honor of Saint Dominic. 1 Bartholomew Bartholomew PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Columbus Columbus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 founded found VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 settlement settlement NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 named name VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 La La PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ _ 10 Nueva Nueva PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 Isabela Isabela PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 La La PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 list _ _ 15 Isabela Isabela PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 earlier early ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 settlement settlement NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 after after ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 Isabella Isabella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 I. I. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 In in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 1495 1495 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 renamed rename VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 Santo Santo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 xcomp _ _ 38 Domingo Domingo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 honor honor NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 Saint Saint PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 Dominic Dominic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **found** | past | Bartholomew | the settlement | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent settlement=Patient | | 2 | **name** | past | Bartholomew *not said here* | settlement | | 1495 | | La after La *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **name** | participle | | the north *not said here* | | | after the Queen of Isabella I. | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **rename** | past · passive | | settlement | | honor of Saint | | Santo *xcomp* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **honor** | | | Saint | | | | | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Santo Domingo», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Santo_Domingo/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Santo_Domingo/17/) - ↑ back to [Santo Domingo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Santo_Domingo/)