Haiti, sentence 12
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.
Following a coup d'état in 1991, a U.S.-led multinational force intervened in 1994; a second coup in 2004 was followed by a United Nations intervention.
Who acts: Nations intervention · What happens: follow, lead, intervene · To what, where: U.S., led multinational force, 1994, second coup
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 (Nations intervention), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 d'état | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 d'état | det |
| 3 | coup | coup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 d'état | compound |
| 4 | d'état | d'état | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1991 | case |
| 6 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 d'état | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 force | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 force | det |
| 9 | U.S. | U.S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 led | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 U.S. | punct |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 force | amod |
| 12 | multinational | multinational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 force | amod |
| 13 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 d'état | appos |
| 14 | intervened | intervene | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 force | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1994 | case |
| 16 | 1994 | 1994 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 intervened | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 followed | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 coup | det |
| 19 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 coup | amod |
| 20 | coup | coup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 2004 | case |
| 22 | 2004 | 2004 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 coup | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 followed | aux:pass |
| 24 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 d'état | parataxis |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 intervention | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 intervention | det |
| 27 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 28 Nations | compound |
| 28 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 intervention | compound |
| 29 | intervention | intervention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 followed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 d'état | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | lead | participle | U.S. | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | intervene | participle | a led multinational force not said here | 1994 | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | follow | past · passive | a Nations intervention | a second coup in 2004 | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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.
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