--- title: During the tensions Nathaniel had befriended the militant group but… — Solomon Islands · tree and pragmatics description: During the tensions Nathaniel had befriended the militant group but Harold Keke accused him of being a government spy and he was beaten to death; it was reported that he died singing hymns. Who acts: Nathaniel, Harold. 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During the tensions Nathaniel had befriended the militant group but Harold Keke accused him of being a government spy and he was beaten to death; it was reported that he died singing hymns. **Who acts:** Nathaniel, Harold · **What happens:** befriend, accuse, be, beat, report, die · **To what, where:** militant group, group, Harold, death, Six, hymns 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 (Nathaniel, Harold), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Solomon_Islands:138 # text = During the tensions Nathaniel had befriended the militant group but Harold Keke accused him of being a government spy and he was beaten to death; it was reported that he died singing hymns. 1 During during ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 tensions tension NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 4 Nathaniel Nathaniel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 befriended befriend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 militant militant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 Harold Harold PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 Keke Keke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 13 accused accuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 spy spy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 33 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 34 hymns hymn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **befriend** | past · perfect | Nathaniel | the militant group | | | during the tensions | | tree rules | | 2 | **accuse** | past | Harold | group | | | | | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | of a government spy | tree rules | | 4 | **beat** | past · passive | | Harold | death | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to death=Recipient | | 5 | **report** | past · passive | | Six | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **die** | past | Harold | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Harold *not said here* | hymns | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Solomon Islands», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Solomon_Islands/137/) - next →: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Solomon_Islands/139/) - ↑ back to [Solomon Islands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Solomon_Islands/)