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title: At least nine people were killed and many houses demolished. — Solomon Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: At least nine people were killed and many houses demolished. Who acts: many houses. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Solomon Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Solomon Islands, sentence 283

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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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At least nine people were killed and many houses demolished.

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**Who acts:** many houses · **What happens:** kill, demolish · **To what, where:** nine people

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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 (many houses), 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:283
# text = At least nine people were killed and many houses demolished.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nmod	_	_
3	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	demolished	demolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past · passive |  | nine people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **demolish** | participle | many houses |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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