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title: The Southern politicians who were a powerful voting bloc in the Amer… — Haiti · tree and pragmatics
description: The Southern politicians who were a powerful voting bloc in the American Congress prevented U.S. recognition for decades until they withdrew in 1861 to form the Confederacy. Who acts: Southern politicians, politicians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Haiti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Haiti, sentence 110

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From Wikipedia, [«Haiti»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti), 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.

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The Southern politicians who were a powerful voting bloc in the American Congress prevented U.S. recognition for decades until they withdrew in 1861 to form the Confederacy.

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**Who acts:** Southern politicians, politicians · **What happens:** be, prevent, withdraw, form · **To what, where:** powerful voting bloc, American Congress, U.S. recognition, 1861, Confederacy

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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 (Southern politicians, politicians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:Haiti:110
# text = The Southern politicians who were a powerful voting bloc in the American Congress prevented U.S. recognition for decades until they withdrew in 1861 to form the Confederacy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bloc	bloc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	recognition	recognition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1861	1861	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Confederacy	confederacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Southern politicians | a powerful voting bloc |  | the American Congress |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prevent** | past | the Southern politicians | U.S. recognition |  |  | decade |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer recognition=Theme |
| 3 | **withdraw** | past | politicians *= politician* |  |  | 1861 |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **form** | to-infinitive | politicians *= politician* *not said here* | the Confederacy |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location confederacy=Theme |

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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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**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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