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title: However, allegations that Rini had used bribes from Chinese business… — Solomon Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: However, allegations that Rini had used bribes from Chinese businessmen to buy the votes of members of Parliament led to mass rioting in the capital Honiara, concentrated on the city's Chinatown area. Who acts: allegations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Solomon Islands» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Solomon Islands, sentence 164

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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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However, allegations that Rini had used bribes from Chinese businessmen to buy the votes of members of Parliament led to mass rioting in the capital Honiara, concentrated on the city's Chinatown area.

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**Who acts:** allegations · **What happens:** use, buy, lead, mass, riot, concentrate · **To what, where:** allegations, votes, capital, members

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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 (allegations), 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:164
# text = However, allegations that Rini had used bribes from Chinese businessmen to buy the votes of members of Parliament led to mass rioting in the capital Honiara, concentrated on the city's Chinatown area.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	allegations	allegation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	Rini	Rini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	bribes	bribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	businessmen	businessman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	mass	mass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	rioting	riot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	Honiara	Honiara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	concentrated	concentrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	Chinatown	Chinatown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **use** | past · perfect · passive |  | allegations |  |  |  | Rini *nsubj*; bribes *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive |  | the votes of members of Parliament |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | past | allegations |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 4 | **mass** | to-infinitive | allegations *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **riot** | gerund | allegations *not said here* |  |  | the capital |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **concentrate** | participle | allegations *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the city's Chinatown area | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on area=Topic |
| 7 | **vote** |  |  | members of Parliament |  |  |  |  | nom vote «act 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, «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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