Solomon Islands, sentence 206
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 13 December 2007, Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare was toppled by a vote of no confidence in Parliament, following the defection of five ministers to the opposition.
Who acts: vote, five ministers · What happens: topple, follow, vote, defect · To what, where: Manasseh, 13, defection, confidence
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 (vote, five ministers), 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 | _ | 2 13 | case |
| 2 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 toppled | obl |
| 3 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 2007 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 2007 | 2007 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 13 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 13 | punct |
| 6 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 7 Minister | compound |
| 7 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Manasseh | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Manasseh | Manasseh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 toppled | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | Sogavare | Sogavare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Manasseh | flat |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 toppled | aux:pass |
| 11 | toppled | topple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 vote | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 vote | det |
| 14 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 toppled | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 confidence | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 confidence | det |
| 17 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vote | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Parliament | case |
| 19 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 confidence | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 following | punct |
| 21 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 toppled | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 defection | det |
| 23 | defection | defection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 following | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ministers | case |
| 25 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 ministers | nummod |
| 26 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 defection | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 opposition | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 opposition | det |
| 29 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ministers | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 toppled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | topple | past · passive | a vote of no confidence in Parliament | Manasseh Prime Minister | 13 | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | a vote of no confidence in Parliament not said here | the defection of five ministers to the opposition | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defection=Theme | ||||
| 3 | vote | no confidence in Parliament | nom vote «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | defect | five ministers to the opposition | nom defection «act intransitive»: of=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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