--- title: Sogavare was ousted in a no-confidence vote in 2017, which saw Rick… — Solomon Islands · tree and pragmatics description: Sogavare was ousted in a no-confidence vote in 2017, which saw Rick Houenipwela come to power; however, Sogavare returned to the prime ministership after winning the 2019 election, sparking rioting in Honiara. Who acts: confidence vote, Rick, Sogavare. 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Sogavare was ousted in a no-confidence vote in 2017, which saw Rick Houenipwela come to power; however, Sogavare returned to the prime ministership after winning the 2019 election, sparking rioting in Honiara. **Who acts:** confidence vote, Rick, Sogavare · **What happens:** oust, see, come, return, win, spark · **To what, where:** Sogavare, confidence vote, power, 2019 election, Honiara · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (confidence vote, Rick, Sogavare), 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:174 # text = Sogavare was ousted in a no-confidence vote in 2017, which saw Rick Houenipwela come to power; however, Sogavare returned to the prime ministership after winning the 2019 election, sparking rioting in Honiara. 1 Sogavare Sogavare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 ousted oust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 8 det _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 confidence confidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 2017 2017 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 Rick Rick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 Houenipwela Houenipwela PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ _ 17 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 however however ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 Sogavare Sogavare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 ministership ministership NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 after after SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 winning win VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 sparking spark VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 conj _ _ 36 rioting riot VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 xcomp _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Honiara Honiara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **oust** | past · passive | | Sogavare | | a confidence vote in 2017 | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | a confidence vote in 2017 | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **come** | infinitive | Rick | | | power | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to power=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **return** | past | Sogavare | | | | | to the prime ministership *result*; however *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to ministership=Result | | 5 | **win** | gerund | Sogavare *not said here* | the 2019 election | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality | | 6 | **spark** | gerund | Sogavare *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **riot** | gerund | Sogavare *not said here* | | | Honiara | | | tree rules | 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 173](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Solomon_Islands/173/) - next →: [sentence 175](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Solomon_Islands/175/) - ↑ back to [Solomon Islands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Solomon_Islands/)