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A report which reached the English government in May 1586 states that from Santo Domingo he took away 1,200 Englishmen, Frenchmen, Flemings, and "Provincials out of prison, besides 800 of the countrey people". **Who acts:** report, 1586 states, Provincials · **What happens:** reach, take away, beside · **To what, where:** English government, 1,200 Englishmen, Santo, 800 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 (report, 1586 states, Provincials), 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:28 # text = A report which reached the English government in May 1586 states that from Santo Domingo he took away 1,200 Englishmen, Frenchmen, Flemings, and "Provincials out of prison, besides 800 of the countrey people". 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 1586 1586 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Santo Santo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 15 Domingo Domingo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 1,200 1200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 Englishmen englishman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Frenchmen frenchman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Flemings fleming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Provincials provincial NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 29 out out ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 33 besides beside VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 800 800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 countrey countrey NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past | a report | the English government | | | may | which *nsubj*; 1586 states *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent government=Beneficiary state=Theme | | 2 | **take away** | past | 1586 states | 1,200 Englishmen and Frenchmen and Flemings | | Santo | | report *nsubj*; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent englishman=Theme from santo=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **beside** *in a quote* | present | Provincials out prison | 800 of the countrey people | | | | | tree rules | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Santo_Domingo/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Santo_Domingo/29/) - ↑ back to [Santo Domingo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Santo_Domingo/)