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title: In 1821, Santo Domingo became the capital of an independent nation c… — Santo Domingo · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1821, Santo Domingo became the capital of an independent nation called the Republic of Spanish Haiti after the Criollo bourgeois within the country, led by José Núñez de Cáceres, overthrew the Spanish crown. Who acts: Santo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Santo Domingo» with its dependency tree and p
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# Santo Domingo, sentence 36

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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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In 1821, Santo Domingo became the capital of an independent nation called the Republic of Spanish Haiti after the Criollo bourgeois within the country, led by José Núñez de Cáceres, overthrew the Spanish crown.

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**Who acts:** Santo · **What happens:** become, call, lead, overthrow · **To what, where:** capital, 1821, independent nation, Criollo bourgeois, Spanish crown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Santo), 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:36
# text = In 1821, Santo Domingo became the capital of an independent nation called the Republic of Spanish Haiti after the Criollo bourgeois within the country, led by José Núñez de Cáceres, overthrew the Spanish crown.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1821	1821	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Santo	Santo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Domingo	Domingo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Haiti	Haiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Criollo	Criollo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	bourgeois	bourgeois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	within	within	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	José	José	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl:agent	_	_
30	Núñez	Núñez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
32	Cáceres	Cáceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	overthrew	overthrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Santo | the capital of a independent nation |  |  |  | in 1821 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1821=Result |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a independent nation *not said here* |  |  | after the Criollo bourgeois within the country | the Republic of Spanish Haiti *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lead** | participle |  | the Criollo bourgeois within the country *not said here* |  |  |  | José *obl:agent* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 4 | **overthrow** | past | Santo *not said here* | the Spanish crown |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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