Solomon Islands, sentence 142
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.
Manasseh Sogavare, who had earlier been Finance Minister in Ulufa'alu's government but had subsequently joined the opposition, was elected as prime minister by 23–21 over the Rev. Leslie Boseto.
Who acts: Manasseh · What happens: have, be, join, elect · To what, where: Finance Minister, government, opposition, Manasseh, Leslie Boseto
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 (Manasseh), 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 | Manasseh | Manasseh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Sogavare | Sogavare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Manasseh | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Manasseh | parataxis |
| 6 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 Minister | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 Minister | cop |
| 8 | Finance | Finance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Minister | compound |
| 9 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 government | case |
| 11 | Ulufa'alu | Ulufa'alu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 government | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Ulufa'alu | case |
| 13 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Minister | nmod |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 joined | cc |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 joined | aux |
| 16 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 17 joined | advmod |
| 17 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 had | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 opposition | det |
| 19 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 joined | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Manasseh | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 elected | aux:pass |
| 22 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 minister | case |
| 24 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 minister | amod |
| 25 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 elected | obl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 23 | case |
| 27 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 elected | obl |
| 28 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 29 21 | case |
| 29 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 23 | nmod |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 Boseto | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Boseto | det |
| 32 | Rev. | Rev. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Leslie | nmod:desc |
| 33 | Leslie | Leslie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Boseto | compound |
| 34 | Boseto | Boseto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 elected | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 elected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Manasseh | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | participle | Finance Minister | Ulufa'alu's government | early property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | join | past · perfect | Manasseh not said here | the opposition | subsequently property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposition=Patient | |||
| 4 | elect | past · passive | Manasseh | the Leslie Boseto | as prime minister; by 23 – 21 | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as minister=Attribute |
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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