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title: Manasseh Sogavare, who had earlier been Finance Minister in Ulufa'al… — Solomon Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: Manasseh Sogavare, who had earlier been Finance Minister in Ulufa'alu's government but had subsequently joined the opposition, was elected as prime minister by 23–21 over the Rev. Leslie Boseto. Who acts: Manasseh. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Solomon Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Solomon Islands, sentence 142

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From Wikipedia, [«Solomon Islands»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands), 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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Manasseh Sogavare, who had earlier been Finance Minister in Ulufa'alu's government but had subsequently joined the opposition, was elected as prime minister by 23–21 over the Rev. Leslie Boseto.

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**Who acts:** Manasseh · **What happens:** have, be, join, elect · **To what, where:** Finance Minister, government, opposition, Manasseh, Leslie Boseto

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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 (Manasseh), 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:Solomon_Islands:142
# text = Manasseh Sogavare, who had earlier been Finance Minister in Ulufa'alu's government but had subsequently joined the opposition, was elected as prime minister by 23–21 over the Rev. Leslie Boseto.
1	Manasseh	Manasseh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Sogavare	Sogavare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
8	Finance	Finance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Ulufa'alu	Ulufa'alu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nmod	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	Rev.	Rev.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:desc	_	_
33	Leslie	Leslie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Boseto	Boseto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Manasseh |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | Finance Minister |  | Ulufa'alu's government |  | early *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **join** | past · perfect | Manasseh *not said here* | the opposition |  |  |  | subsequently *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposition=Patient |
| 4 | **elect** | past · passive |  | Manasseh |  | the Leslie Boseto |  | as prime minister; by 23 – 21 | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as minister=Attribute |

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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, «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.

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