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title: Since the late 1990s, Honiara has suffered a turbulent history of et… — Honiara · tree and pragmatics
description: Since the late 1990s, Honiara has suffered a turbulent history of ethnic violence and political unrest and is scarred by rioting. Who acts: Honiara. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Honiara» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Honiara, sentence 6

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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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Since the late 1990s, Honiara has suffered a turbulent history of ethnic violence and political unrest and is scarred by rioting.

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**Who acts:** Honiara · **What happens:** suffer, scar, riot · **To what, where:** turbulent history

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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 (Honiara), 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:6
# text = Since the late 1990s, Honiara has suffered a turbulent history of ethnic violence and political unrest and is scarred by rioting.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Honiara	Honiara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	turbulent	turbulent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	unrest	unrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	scarred	scar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	rioting	riot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | present · perfect | Honiara | a turbulent history of ethnic violence and political unrest |  |  | since the late 1990s |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer history=Stimulus |
| 2 | **scar** | present · passive | Honiara *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **riot** | gerund | Honiara *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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