---
title: Meanwhile, after continuing political wrangling with the opposition… — Haiti · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, after continuing political wrangling with the opposition and allegations of electoral fraud, Martelly agreed to step down in 2016 without a successor in place. Who acts: Martelly. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Haiti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Haiti/265/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Haiti](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Haiti/) / 265

# Haiti, sentence 265

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Meanwhile, after continuing political wrangling with the opposition and allegations of electoral fraud, Martelly agreed to step down in 2016 without a successor in place.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Martelly · **What happens:** continue, wrangle, agree, step down · **To what, where:** 2016

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Martelly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:265
# text = Meanwhile, after continuing political wrangling with the opposition and allegations of electoral fraud, Martelly agreed to step down in 2016 without a successor in place.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	continuing	continue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
5	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	wrangling	wrangle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	allegations	allegation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	electoral	electoral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fraud	fraud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	Martelly	Martelly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
23	without	without	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	successor	successor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | gerund | Martelly *not said here* |  |  |  |  | political *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wrangle** | gerund | Martelly *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the opposition and allegations of electoral fraud | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with opposition=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Martelly |  |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **step down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Martelly *not said here* |  |  | 2016 |  | without a successor in place | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 264](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Haiti/264/)
- next →: [sentence 266](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Haiti/266/)
- ↑ back to [Haiti](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Haiti/)