Solomon Islands, sentence 164
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.
However, allegations that Rini had used bribes from Chinese businessmen to buy the votes of members of Parliament led to mass rioting in the capital Honiara, concentrated on the city's Chinatown area.
Who acts: allegations · What happens: use, buy, lead, mass, riot, concentrate · To what, where: allegations, votes, capital, members
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 (allegations), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 20 led | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | allegations | allegation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 led | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 used | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | Rini | Rini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 used | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 used | aux |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 allegations | acl:relcl |
| 8 | bribes | bribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 used | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 businessmen | case |
| 10 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 businessmen | amod |
| 11 | businessmen | businessman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bribes | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 buy | mark |
| 13 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 used | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 votes | det |
| 15 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 buy | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 members | case |
| 17 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 votes | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Parliament | case |
| 19 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 members | nmod |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 mass | mark |
| 22 | mass | mass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 led | xcomp |
| 23 | rioting | riot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 mass | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 capital | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 capital | det |
| 26 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rioting | obl |
| 27 | Honiara | Honiara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 capital | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 concentrated | punct |
| 29 | concentrated | concentrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 led | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 area | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 city | det |
| 32 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 area | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 city | case |
| 34 | Chinatown | Chinatown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 area | compound |
| 35 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 concentrated | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · perfect · passive | allegations | Rini nsubj; bribes obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | the votes of members of Parliament | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lead | past | allegations | however property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | ||||
| 4 | mass | to-infinitive | allegations not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | riot | gerund | allegations not said here | the capital | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | concentrate | participle | allegations not said here | on the city's Chinatown area | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on area=Topic | ||||
| 7 | vote | members of Parliament | nom vote «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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