Haiti, sentence 151

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Emboldened by the sudden retreat of the Haitian army, the Dominicans counter-attacked; their flotilla went as far as Dame-Marie on the Tiburon Peninsula, which they plundered and set on fire.

Who acts: Dominicans, flotilla · What happens: embolden, counter-attack, go, plunder, set · To what, where: Haitian army, Tiburon Peninsula, fire

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 (Dominicans, flotilla), 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	Emboldened	embolden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 retreat	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 retreat	det
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 retreat	amod
5	retreat	retreat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Emboldened	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 army	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 army	det
8	Haitian	haitian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 army	amod
9	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 retreat	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 counter-attacked	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Dominicans	det
12	Dominicans	Dominican	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 counter-attacked	nsubj
13	counter-attacked	counter-attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 army	acl:relcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 flotilla	nmod:poss
16	flotilla	flotilla	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Emboldened	parataxis
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 far	advmod
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 went	advmod
20	as	as	ADP	_	23 Marie	case
21	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Marie	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Dame	punct
23	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 far	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 Peninsula	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Peninsula	det
26	Tiburon	Tiburon	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Peninsula	compound
27	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 plundered	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 plundered	nsubj
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 plundered	nsubj
31	plundered	plunder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 set	cc
33	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 plundered	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 fire	case
35	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 set	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Emboldened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	embolden	participle				by the sudden retreat of the Haitian army	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	counter-attack	past	the Dominicans	the Haitian army not said here			tree rules
3	go	past	armies's flotilla		the Tiburon Peninsula	far property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on peninsula=Location
4	plunder	past				which nsubj; Dominicans = dominican nsubj	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	set	infinitive			fire		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on fire=Destination

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 151