--- title: It was re-established as the capital of all of Haiti when the countr… — Port-au-Prince · tree and pragmatics description: It was re-established as the capital of all of Haiti when the country was unified again in 1820 Port-au-Prince was the centre of the political and intellectual life of the country and is the seat of the State University of Haiti (established in 1920). Who acts: Port au. 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It was re-established as the capital of all of Haiti when the country was unified again in 1820 Port-au-Prince was the centre of the political and intellectual life of the country and is the seat of the State University of Haiti (established in 1920). **Who acts:** Port au · **What happens:** re-establish, unify, be, establish · **To what, where:** colony, country, centre, 1820, seat, State University This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port-au-Prince». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Port au), 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:Port-au-Prince:75 # text = It was re-established as the capital of all of Haiti when the country was unified again in 1820 Port-au-Prince was the centre of the political and intellectual life of the country and is the seat of the State University of Haiti (established in 1920). 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 re-established re-establish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Haiti Haiti PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 unified unify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 16 again again ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 1820 1820 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 obl _ _ 19 Port Port PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 au au NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 29 political political ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 intellectual intellectual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 32 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 State State PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 University University PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 Haiti Haiti PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 46 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 established establish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 acl _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 1920 1920 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **re-establish** | past · passive | | colony | | | | as the capital of all of Haiti | tree rules | | 2 | **unify** | past · passive | | the country | | | again | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | past | Port au | the centre and the seat | | 1820 | | of the political life of the country | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | Port au *not said here* | the seat | | | | of the State University of Haiti | tree rules | | 5 | **establish** | participle | | the State University of Haiti *not said here* | | 1920 | | | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | 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, «Port-au-Prince», 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/76/) - ↑ back to [Port-au-Prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port-au-Prince/)