Haiti, sentence 110

From Wikipedia, «Haiti», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

The Southern politicians who were a powerful voting bloc in the American Congress prevented U.S. recognition for decades until they withdrew in 1861 to form the Confederacy.

Who acts: Southern politicians, politicians · What happens: be, prevent, withdraw, form · To what, where: powerful voting bloc, American Congress, U.S. recognition, 1861, Confederacy

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Haiti». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Southern politicians, politicians), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 politicians	det
2	Southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 politicians	amod
3	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 prevented	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 bloc	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bloc	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bloc	det
7	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bloc	amod
8	voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bloc	compound
9	bloc	bloc	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 politicians	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 Congress	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Congress	det
12	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Congress	amod
13	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bloc	nmod
14	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 recognition	compound
16	recognition	recognition	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prevented	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 decades	case
18	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 prevented	obl
19	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 withdrew	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 withdrew	nsubj
21	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 prevented	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 1861	case
23	1861	1861	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 withdrew	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 form	mark
25	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 withdrew	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Confederacy	det
27	Confederacy	confederacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 form	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 prevented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	the Southern politicians	a powerful voting bloc	the American Congress		tree rules
2	prevent	past	the Southern politicians	U.S. recognition		decade	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer recognition=Theme
3	withdraw	past	politicians = politician		1861		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	form	to-infinitive	politicians = politician not said here	the Confederacy			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location confederacy=Theme

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, «Haiti», 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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🌲 Haiti, sentence 110

The tree

Pragmatics

Haiti, sentence 110