Haiti, sentence 140
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.
On 1 January 1846, Pierrot announced a fresh campaign to reimpose Haitian suzerainty over eastern Hispaniola, but his officers and men greeted this fresh summons with contempt.
Who acts: Pierrot, officers · What happens: announce, reimpose, greet · To what, where: fresh campaign, 1, Haitian suzerainty, eastern Hispaniola, fresh summons
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 (Pierrot, officers), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 1 | case |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 announced | obl |
| 3 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 1846 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 1846 | 1846 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1 | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 6 | Pierrot | Pierrot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 announced | nsubj |
| 7 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 campaign | det |
| 9 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 campaign | amod |
| 10 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 announced | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 reimpose | mark |
| 12 | reimpose | reimpose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 campaign | acl |
| 13 | Haitian | haitian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 suzerainty | amod |
| 14 | suzerainty | suzerainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reimpose | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 Hispaniola | case |
| 16 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Hispaniola | amod |
| 17 | Hispaniola | Hispaniola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 reimpose | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 greeted | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 greeted | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 officers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 greeted | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 men | cc |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 officers | conj |
| 24 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 announced | conj |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 summons | det |
| 26 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 summons | amod |
| 27 | summons | summon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 greeted | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 contempt | case |
| 29 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 summons | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | Pierrot | a fresh campaign | 1 | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent campaign=Theme | |||
| 2 | reimpose | to-infinitive | Pierrot not said here | Haitian suzerainty | eastern Hispaniola | tree rules | |||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | past | Pierrot's officers and men | this fresh summons | with contempt | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summon=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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