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title: The first major slave revolt in the Americas occurred in Santo Domin… — Santo Domingo · tree and pragmatics
description: The first major slave revolt in the Americas occurred in Santo Domingo during 1521, when enslaved Africans led an uprising on Diego Colombus's sugar plantation. Who acts: first major slave revolt, enslaved Africans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Santo Domingo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Santo Domingo, sentence 26

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From Wikipedia, [«Santo Domingo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Domingo), 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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The first major slave revolt in the Americas occurred in Santo Domingo during 1521, when enslaved Africans led an uprising on Diego Colombus's sugar plantation.

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**Who acts:** first major slave revolt, enslaved Africans · **What happens:** occur, enslave, lead · **To what, where:** Santo, uprising, sugar plantation

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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 (first major slave revolt, enslaved Africans), 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:Santo_Domingo:26
# text = The first major slave revolt in the Americas occurred in Santo Domingo during 1521, when enslaved Africans led an uprising on Diego Colombus's sugar plantation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
3	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	revolt	revolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Santo	Santo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	Domingo	Domingo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1521	1521	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	enslaved	enslave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	Africans	African	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	uprising	uprising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	Diego	Diego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Colombus	Colombus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	plantation	plantation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | past | the first major slave revolt in the Americas |  |  | Santo | during 1521 |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in santo=Location |
| 2 | **enslave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lead** | past | enslaved Africans | a uprising |  | Diego Colombus's sugar plantation |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent uprising=Theme on plantation=Destination |

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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, «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.

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