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title: Emboldened by the sudden retreat of the Haitian army, the Dominicans… — Haiti · tree and pragmatics
description: Emboldened by the sudden retreat of the Haitian army, the Dominicans counter-attacked; their flotilla went as far as Dame-Marie on the Tiburon Peninsula, which they plundered and set on fire. Who acts: Dominicans, flotilla. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Haiti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Haiti, sentence 151

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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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Emboldened by the sudden retreat of the Haitian army, the Dominicans counter-attacked; their flotilla went as far as Dame-Marie on the Tiburon Peninsula, which they plundered and set on fire.

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**Who acts:** Dominicans, flotilla · **What happens:** embolden, counter-attack, go, plunder, set · **To what, where:** Haitian army, Tiburon Peninsula, fire

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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 (Dominicans, flotilla), 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:151
# text = Emboldened by the sudden retreat of the Haitian army, the Dominicans counter-attacked; their flotilla went as far as Dame-Marie on the Tiburon Peninsula, which they plundered and set on fire.
1	Emboldened	embolden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	retreat	retreat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Haitian	haitian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Dominicans	Dominican	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	counter-attacked	counter-attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	flotilla	flotilla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Marie	Marie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Tiburon	Tiburon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	plundered	plunder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embolden** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the sudden retreat of the Haitian army | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **counter-attack** | past | the Dominicans | the Haitian army *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | armies's flotilla |  |  | the Tiburon Peninsula |  | far *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on peninsula=Location |
| 4 | **plunder** | past |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; Dominicans *= dominican* *nsubj* | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **set** | infinitive |  |  |  | fire |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on fire=Destination |

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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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