--- title: However, MINUSTAH proved controversial, since their periodically hea… — Haiti · tree and pragmatics description: However, MINUSTAH proved controversial, since their periodically heavy-handed approach to maintaining law and order and several instances of abuses, including the alleged sexual abuse of civilians, provoked resentment and distrust among Haitians. Who acts: MINUSTAH, charges. 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However, MINUSTAH proved controversial, since their periodically heavy-handed approach to maintaining law and order and several instances of abuses, including the alleged sexual abuse of civilians, provoked resentment and distrust among Haitians. **Who acts:** MINUSTAH, charges · **What happens:** prove, hand, maintain, provoke, approach, instance · **To what, where:** heavy handed approach, law, abuses, civilians 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 (MINUSTAH, charges), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:247 # text = However, MINUSTAH proved controversial, since their periodically heavy-handed approach to maintaining law and order and several instances of abuses, including the alleged sexual abuse of civilians, provoked resentment and distrust among Haitians. 1 However however ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 MINUSTAH MINUSTAH PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 proved prove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 controversial controversial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 since since SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 9 periodically periodically ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 10 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 handed hand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 approach approach NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 14 to to SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 maintaining maintain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 16 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 instances instance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 abuses abuse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 including including ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 alleged alleged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 sexual sexual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 abuse abuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 civilians civilian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 provoked provoke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ _ 34 resentment resentment NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 distrust distrust NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 among among ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Haitians Haitian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prove** | past | MINUSTAH | charges's heavy handed approach | | | | controversial, however *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hand** | participle | | | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **maintain** | gerund | MINUSTAH *not said here* | law and order and several instances of abuses | | | | including the alleged sexual abuse of civilians and provoked resentment among Haitians and distrust | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent law=Theme | | 4 | **provoke** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **approach** | | charges *= charge* | | | | | | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **instance** | | | abuses | | | | | nom instance «event transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **abuse** | | | civilians | | | | | nom abuse «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 246](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Haiti/246/) - next →: [sentence 248](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Haiti/248/) - ↑ back to [Haiti](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Haiti/)