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title: JM Balbuena (born 1984), Afro-Latina Dominican-American author and f… — Santo Domingo · tree and pragmatics
description: JM Balbuena (born 1984), Afro-Latina Dominican-American author and filmmaker Who acts: JM. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Santo Domingo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Santo Domingo, sentence 335

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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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JM Balbuena (born 1984), Afro-Latina Dominican-American author and filmmaker

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**Who acts:** JM · **What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** 1984, JM

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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 (JM), 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:335
# text = JM Balbuena (born 1984), Afro-Latina Dominican-American author and filmmaker
1	JM	JM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Balbuena	Balbuena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	1984	1984	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Afro	Afro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Latina	Latina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
11	Dominican	Dominican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	filmmaker	filmmaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle | JM and Afro and Latina *not said here* | 1984 |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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