Haiti, sentence 179
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.
1700 km of roads were made usable, 189 bridges were built, many irrigation canals were rehabilitated, hospitals, schools, and public buildings were constructed, and drinking water was brought to the main cities.
What happens: make, build, rehabilitate, construct, drink, bring · To what, where: 1700 km, 189 bridges, many irrigation canals, public buildings, drinking water, main cities
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: 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 | 1700 | 1700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 km | nummod |
| 2 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 roads | case |
| 4 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 km | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | usable | usable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 made | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 built | punct |
| 9 | 189 | 189 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 bridges | nummod |
| 10 | bridges | bridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 built | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 built | aux:pass |
| 12 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 made | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rehabilitated | punct |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 canals | amod |
| 15 | irrigation | irrigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 canals | compound |
| 16 | canals | canal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rehabilitated | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 rehabilitated | aux:pass |
| 18 | rehabilitated | rehabilitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 built | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hospitals | punct |
| 20 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rehabilitated | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 schools | punct |
| 22 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hospitals | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 constructed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 constructed | cc |
| 25 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 buildings | amod |
| 26 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 constructed | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 constructed | aux:pass |
| 28 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 made | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 brought | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 brought | cc |
| 31 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 water | amod |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 brought | aux:pass |
| 34 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 made | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 cities | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 cities | det |
| 37 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 cities | amod |
| 38 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 brought | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | 1700 km of roads | usable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | build | past · passive | 189 bridges | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | rehabilitate | past · passive | many irrigation canals | hospitals and schools obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | construct | past · passive | public buildings | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 5 | drink | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | bring | past · passive | drinking water | the main cities | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to city=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Haiti/179/