Solomon Islands, sentence 138
From Wikipedia, «Solomon Islands», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
During the tensions Nathaniel had befriended the militant group but Harold Keke accused him of being a government spy and he was beaten to death; it was reported that he died singing hymns.
Who acts: Nathaniel, Harold · What happens: befriend, accuse, be, beat, report, die · To what, where: militant group, group, Harold, death, Six, hymns
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Solomon Islands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nathaniel, Harold), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 tensions | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tensions | det |
| 3 | tensions | tension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 befriended | obl |
| 4 | Nathaniel | Nathaniel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 befriended | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 befriended | aux |
| 6 | befriended | befriend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 group | det |
| 8 | militant | militant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 group | amod |
| 9 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 befriended | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 accused | cc |
| 11 | Harold | Harold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 accused | nsubj |
| 12 | Keke | Keke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Harold | flat |
| 13 | accused | accuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 befriended | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 accused | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 spy | case |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 spy | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 spy | det |
| 18 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spy | compound |
| 19 | spy | spy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 accused | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 beaten | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 beaten | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 beaten | aux:pass |
| 23 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 accused | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 death | case |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beaten | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 reported | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 reported | aux:pass |
| 29 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 befriended | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 died | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 died | nsubj |
| 32 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 reported | ccomp |
| 33 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 died | advcl |
| 34 | hymns | hymn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 singing | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 befriended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befriend | past · perfect | Nathaniel | the militant group | during the tensions | tree rules | |||
| 2 | accuse | past | Harold | group | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | of a government spy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | beat | past · passive | Harold | death | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to death=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | report | past · passive | Six | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | die | past | Harold | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | sing speech: express | gerund | Harold not said here | hymns | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme |
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, «Solomon Islands», 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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