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title: Thus, a month later – February 1846 – when Pierrot ordered his troop… — Haiti · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, a month later – February 1846 – when Pierrot ordered his troops to march against the Dominicans, the Haitian army mutinied, and its soldiers proclaimed his overthrow as president of the republic. Who acts: Pierrot, 1846, Haitian army, soldiers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Haiti» with its depend
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# Haiti, sentence 141

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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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Thus, a month later – February 1846 – when Pierrot ordered his troops to march against the Dominicans, the Haitian army mutinied, and its soldiers proclaimed his overthrow as president of the republic.

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**Who acts:** Pierrot, 1846, Haitian army, soldiers · **What happens:** order, march, mutiny, proclaim, overthrow · **To what, where:** 1846, Dominicans, overthrow

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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, 1846, Haitian army, soldiers), 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:141
# text = Thus, a month later – February 1846 – when Pierrot ordered his troops to march against the Dominicans, the Haitian army mutinied, and its soldiers proclaimed his overthrow as president of the republic.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
6	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	1846	1846	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
9	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	Pierrot	Pierrot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	march	march	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Dominicans	Dominican	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Haitian	haitian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	mutinied	mutiny	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	overthrow	overthrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | Pierrot | 1846  February |  |  |  | Pierrot's troops *obj* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent troops=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **march** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | 1846  February *not said here* |  |  | the Dominicans |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against dominican=Trajectory |
| 3 | **mutiny** | past | the Haitian army |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **proclaim** | past | campaign's soldiers | Pierrot's overthrow |  |  |  | as president of the republic | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent overthrow=Theme as president=Attribute |
| 5 | **overthrow** |  | Pierrot |  |  |  |  |  | nom overthrow «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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