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title: Jovenel Moïse, who was elected the 48th president in 2016, was assas… — Haiti · tree and pragmatics
description: Jovenel Moïse, who was elected the 48th president in 2016, was assassinated in 2021 amidst an ongoing gang conflict, worsening a political crisis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Haiti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Haiti, sentence 363

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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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Jovenel Moïse, who was elected the 48th president in 2016, was assassinated in 2021 amidst an ongoing gang conflict, worsening a political crisis.

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**What happens:** elect, assassinate, worsen · **To what, where:** Jovenel, 2016, 2021, political crisis

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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: 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:363
# text = Jovenel Moïse, who was elected the 48th president in 2016, was assassinated in 2021 amidst an ongoing gang conflict, worsening a political crisis.
1	Jovenel	Jovenel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Moïse	Moïse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	48th	48th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	assassinated	assassinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
17	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	ongoing	ongoing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	worsening	worsen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elect** | past · passive |  | Jovenel |  | 2016 |  | the 48th president *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme president=Attribute |
| 2 | **assassinate** | past · passive |  | Jovenel |  | 2021 |  | amidst a ongoing gang conflict | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **worsen** | gerund |  | a political crisis |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent crisis=Patient |

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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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