Haiti, sentence 567
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.
As such, it is difficult to estimate the number of Vodouists in Haiti, especially given the legacy of historic persecution and misrepresentation in popular media and culture, as well as modern stigmatization among segments of the growing Protestant population.
What happens: be, estimate, give, grow · To what, where: number, legacy, popular media
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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 such | case |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 difficult | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 such | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 difficult | expl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 difficult | cop |
| 6 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 estimate | mark |
| 8 | estimate | estimate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 difficult | csubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 estimate | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Vodouists | case |
| 12 | Vodouists | Vodouist | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 number | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Haiti | case |
| 14 | Haiti | Haiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Vodouists | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 given | punct |
| 16 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 17 given | advmod |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 difficult | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 legacy | det |
| 19 | legacy | legacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 persecution | case |
| 21 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 persecution | amod |
| 22 | persecution | persecution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 legacy | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 misrepresentation | cc |
| 24 | misrepresentation | misrepresentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 persecution | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 media | case |
| 26 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 media | amod |
| 27 | media | media | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 culture | cc |
| 29 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 media | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 stigmatization | punct |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 34 modern | cc |
| 32 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 as | fixed |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 as | fixed |
| 34 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 stigmatization | amod |
| 35 | stigmatization | stigmatization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | parataxis |
| 36 | among | among | ADP | _ | 37 segments | case |
| 37 | segments | segment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 stigmatization | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 population | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 population | det |
| 40 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 population | amod |
| 41 | Protestant | protestant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 population | compound |
| 42 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 segments | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | as such; difficult property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | estimate | to-infinitive | the number of Vodouists in Haiti | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent number=Value | |||||
| 3 | give | participle | the legacy of historic persecution and misrepresentation | popular media and culture | modern stigmatization among segments of the growing Protestant population parataxis; especially property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legacy=Theme | |||
| 4 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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