---
title: There have been accusations that some Haitian immigrants work in sla… — Dominican Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: There have been accusations that some Haitian immigrants work in slavery-like conditions and are severely exploited. Who acts: that. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dominican Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dominican_Republic/509/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Dominican Republic](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dominican_Republic/) / 509

# Dominican Republic, sentence 509

<!-- div src -->

From Wikipedia, [«Dominican Republic»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
There have been accusations that some Haitian immigrants work in slavery-like conditions and are severely exploited.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** have, be, work, exploit · **To what, where:** accusations

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dominican Republic». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Dominican_Republic:509
# text = There have been accusations that some Haitian immigrants work in slavery-like conditions and are severely exploited.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	accusations	accusation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	Haitian	haitian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	exploited	exploit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | accusations |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | present | that |  |  |  |  | in like conditions; some Haitian immigrants *nsubj* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in condition=Theme |
| 4 | **exploit** | present · passive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | severely *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP» |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Dominican Republic», 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 508](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dominican_Republic/508/)
- next →: [sentence 510](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dominican_Republic/510/)
- ↑ back to [Dominican Republic](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Dominican_Republic/)