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title: On 1 January 1846, Pierrot announced a fresh campaign to reimpose Ha… — Haiti · tree and pragmatics
description: On 1 January 1846, Pierrot announced a fresh campaign to reimpose Haitian suzerainty over eastern Hispaniola, but his officers and men greeted this fresh summons with contempt. Who acts: Pierrot, officers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Haiti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Haiti, sentence 140

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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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On 1 January 1846, Pierrot announced a fresh campaign to reimpose Haitian suzerainty over eastern Hispaniola, but his officers and men greeted this fresh summons with contempt.

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**Who acts:** Pierrot, officers · **What happens:** announce, reimpose, greet · **To what, where:** fresh campaign, 1, Haitian suzerainty, eastern Hispaniola, fresh summons

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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 (Pierrot, officers), 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:140
# text = On 1 January 1846, Pierrot announced a fresh campaign to reimpose Haitian suzerainty over eastern Hispaniola, but his officers and men greeted this fresh summons with contempt.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1846	1846	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Pierrot	Pierrot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	reimpose	reimpose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	Haitian	haitian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	suzerainty	suzerainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Hispaniola	Hispaniola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	summons	summon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	contempt	contempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Pierrot | a fresh campaign |  | 1 |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent campaign=Theme |
| 2 | **reimpose** | to-infinitive | Pierrot *not said here* | Haitian suzerainty |  | eastern Hispaniola |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | Pierrot's officers and men | this fresh summons |  |  |  | with contempt | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summon=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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