Haiti, sentence 277
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.
During 2023, gangs killed 4,789 people, kidnapped 2,490 more and displaced an estimated 362,000 from their homes (mostly in Port-au-Prince).
Who acts: gangs · What happens: kill, kidnap, displace, estimate · To what, where: 4,789 people, 2,490 more, estimated homes, 362,000
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 (gangs), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 2 2023 | case |
| 2 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 killed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2023 | punct |
| 4 | gangs | gang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 killed | nsubj |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 4,789 | 4,789 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 people | nummod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 killed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kidnapped | punct |
| 9 | kidnapped | kidnap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | conj |
| 10 | 2,490 | 2,490 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 more | nummod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 kidnapped | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 displaced | cc |
| 13 | displaced | displace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kidnapped | conj |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 homes | det |
| 15 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 homes | amod |
| 16 | 362,000 | 362,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 estimated | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 homes | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 homes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 displaced | obj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 au | punct |
| 21 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 25 au | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 au | case |
| 23 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 au | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Port | punct |
| 25 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 homes | appos |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Prince | punct |
| 27 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 au | appos |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 au | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | gangs | 4,789 people | during 2023 | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 2 | kidnap | past | gangs not said here | 2,490 more | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | ||||
| 3 | displace | past | gangs not said here | gangs's estimated homes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | estimate | participle | 362,000 | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent 362,000=Value |
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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