Haiti, sentence 59
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.
Some West Africans in slavery held on to their traditional Vodou beliefs by secretly syncretizing it with Catholicism.
Who acts: Africans · What happens: hold on, syncretize, believe · To what, where: slavery
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 (Africans), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 Africans | det |
| 2 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Africans | compound |
| 3 | Africans | African | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 slavery | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 slavery | case |
| 5 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 slavery | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 held | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 beliefs | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 beliefs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beliefs | amod |
| 11 | Vodou | Vodou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 beliefs | compound |
| 12 | beliefs | belief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 held | obl |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 syncretizing | mark |
| 14 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 15 syncretizing | advmod |
| 15 | syncretizing | syncretize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 held | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 syncretizing | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Catholicism | case |
| 18 | Catholicism | Catholicism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 syncretizing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slavery | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold on | participle | slavery some West Africans not said here | to Africans's traditional Vodou beliefs | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | syncretize | gerund | slavery | with Catholicism; secretly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | believe | Africans = african | nom belief «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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/59/