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title: East of the mouth of the Mataniko River is the beach where, in the s… — Honiara · tree and pragmatics
description: East of the mouth of the Mataniko River is the beach where, in the shallow waters of the sea, wrecks of a Japanese ship destroyed on 23 October 1942 by American artillery and small arms can be seen. Who acts: East, beach. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Honiara» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Honiara, sentence 104

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From Wikipedia, [«Honiara»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honiara), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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East of the mouth of the Mataniko River is the beach where, in the shallow waters of the sea, wrecks of a Japanese ship destroyed on 23 October 1942 by American artillery and small arms can be seen.

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**Who acts:** East, beach · **What happens:** be, destroy, see, wreck · **To what, where:** beach, Japanese ship, 23, wrecks

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Honiara». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (East, beach), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Honiara:104
# text = East of the mouth of the Mataniko River is the beach where, in the shallow waters of the sea, wrecks of a Japanese ship destroyed on 23 October 1942 by American artillery and small arms can be seen.
1	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Mataniko	Mataniko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	wrecks	wreck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
30	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:unmarked	_	_
31	1942	1942	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	flat	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	artillery	artillery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | East of the mouth of the Mataniko River | the beach and the shallow waters of the sea |  |  |  | the shallow waters of the sea *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **destroy** | participle |  | a Japanese ship *not said here* |  | 23  October |  | by American artillery and small arms | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | can · passive | the beach and the shallow waters of the sea *not said here* | wrecks of a Japanese ship |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **wreck** |  |  | a Japanese ship |  |  |  |  | nom wreck «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Honiara», 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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