Solomon Islands, sentence 140
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.
On 5 June 2000, Ulufa'alu was kidnapped by the MEF who felt that, although he was a Malaitan, he was not doing enough to protect their interests.
Who acts: MEF, Malaitan, Malaitans · What happens: kidnap, feel, be, not do, protect, interest · To what, where: Ulufa'alu, Malaitan, interests
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 (MEF, Malaitan, Malaitans), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 June | case |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 June | nummod |
| 3 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kidnapped | obl |
| 4 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 June | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 June | punct |
| 6 | Ulufa'alu | Ulufa'alu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kidnapped | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kidnapped | aux:pass |
| 8 | kidnapped | kidnap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 MEF | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 MEF | det |
| 11 | MEF | MEF | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kidnapped | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 MEF | acl:relcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 doing | mark |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Malaitan | punct |
| 16 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 20 Malaitan | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 Malaitan | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Malaitan | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Malaitan | det |
| 20 | Malaitan | Malaitan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 doing | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Malaitan | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 doing | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 doing | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 doing | advmod |
| 25 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 felt | advcl |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 25 doing | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 protect | mark |
| 28 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 doing | advcl |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 interests | nmod:poss |
| 30 | interests | interest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 protect | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kidnapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kidnap | past · passive | the MEF | Ulufa'alu | june | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | past | the MEF | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | MEF | a Malaitan | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not do | past · progressive | a Malaitan | MEF nsubj; enough property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | protect | to-infinitive | a Malaitan not said here | Malaitans's interests | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | interest | Malaitans = malaitan | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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