Haiti, sentence 247
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.
However, MINUSTAH proved controversial, since their periodically heavy-handed approach to maintaining law and order and several instances of abuses, including the alleged sexual abuse of civilians, provoked resentment and distrust among Haitians.
Who acts: MINUSTAH, charges · What happens: prove, hand, maintain, provoke, approach, instance · To what, where: heavy handed approach, law, abuses, civilians
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 (MINUSTAH, charges), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 proved | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | MINUSTAH | MINUSTAH | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 proved | nsubj |
| 4 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | controversial | controversial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 proved | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 approach | punct |
| 7 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 13 approach | mark |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 approach | nmod:poss |
| 9 | periodically | periodically | ADV | _ | 13 approach | advmod |
| 10 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 approach | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 heavy | punct |
| 12 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 approach | amod |
| 13 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proved | obl |
| 14 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 15 maintaining | mark |
| 15 | maintaining | maintain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 approach | acl |
| 16 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maintaining | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 order | cc |
| 18 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 law | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 instances | cc |
| 20 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 instances | amod |
| 21 | instances | instance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 law | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 abuses | case |
| 23 | abuses | abuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 instances | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 abuse | punct |
| 25 | including | including | ADP | _ | 29 abuse | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 abuse | det |
| 27 | alleged | alleged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 abuse | amod |
| 28 | sexual | sexual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 abuse | amod |
| 29 | abuse | abuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maintaining | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 civilians | case |
| 31 | civilians | civilian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 abuse | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 resentment | punct |
| 33 | provoked | provoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 resentment | amod |
| 34 | resentment | resentment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 abuse | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 distrust | cc |
| 36 | distrust | distrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 resentment | conj |
| 37 | among | among | ADP | _ | 38 Haitians | case |
| 38 | Haitians | Haitian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 resentment | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past | MINUSTAH | charges's heavy handed approach | controversial, however property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | hand | participle | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | maintain | gerund | MINUSTAH not said here | law and order and several instances of abuses | including the alleged sexual abuse of civilians and provoked resentment among Haitians and distrust | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent law=Theme | |||
| 4 | provoke | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | approach | charges = charge | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | instance | abuses | nom instance «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | abuse | civilians | nom abuse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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