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title: The president is the nominal commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces… — Haiti · tree and pragmatics
description: The president is the nominal commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Haiti and the National Police. Who acts: president. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Haiti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Haiti, sentence 353

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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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The president is the nominal commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Haiti and the National Police.

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**Who acts:** president · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** nominal chief

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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 (president), 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:353
# text = The president is the nominal commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Haiti and the National Police.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
5	nominal	nominal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
6	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Haiti	Haiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Police	Police	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the president |  |  | the nominal chief |  | of the Armed Forces of Haiti and the National Police; commander *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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