Haiti, sentence 141
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Thus, a month later – February 1846 – when Pierrot ordered his troops to march against the Dominicans, the Haitian army mutinied, and its soldiers proclaimed his overthrow as president of the republic.
Who acts: Pierrot, 1846, Haitian army, soldiers · What happens: order, march, mutiny, proclaim, overthrow · To what, where: 1846, Dominicans, overthrow
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, 1846, Haitian army, soldiers), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 1846 | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 month | det |
| 4 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 later | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 1846 | advmod |
| 6 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 1846 | punct |
| 7 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 1846 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | 1846 | 1846 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 ordered | obl |
| 9 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordered | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 ordered | advmod |
| 11 | Pierrot | Pierrot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ordered | nsubj |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 troops | nmod:poss |
| 14 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 ordered | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 march | mark |
| 16 | march | march | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ordered | xcomp |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 Dominicans | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Dominicans | det |
| 19 | Dominicans | Dominican | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 march | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 mutinied | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 army | det |
| 22 | Haitian | haitian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 army | amod |
| 23 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mutinied | nsubj |
| 24 | mutinied | mutiny | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ordered | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 proclaimed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 proclaimed | cc |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 28 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 proclaimed | nsubj |
| 29 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 mutinied | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 overthrow | nmod:poss |
| 31 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 proclaimed | obj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 president | case |
| 33 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 proclaimed | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 republic | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 republic | det |
| 36 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 president | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Pierrot | 1846 February | Pierrot's troops obj | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent troops=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | march not said to happen | to-infinitive | 1846 February not said here | the Dominicans | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against dominican=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | mutiny | past | the Haitian army | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | proclaim | past | campaign's soldiers | Pierrot's overthrow | as president of the republic | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent overthrow=Theme as president=Attribute | |||
| 5 | overthrow | Pierrot | nom overthrow «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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