Sri Lanka, sentence 136
From Wikipedia, «Sri Lanka», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Falling coffee prices as a result of the depression of 1847 stalled economic development and prompted the governor to introduce a series of taxes on firearms, dogs, shops, boats, etc., and to reintroduce a form of rajakariya, requiring six days free labour on roads or payment of a cash equivalent.
Who acts: Falling · What happens: fall, stall, prompt, introduce, reintroduce, require · To what, where: coffee prices, economic development, governor, series, form, free labour
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sri Lanka». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Falling), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 stalled | csubj |
| 2 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prices | compound |
| 3 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Falling | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 result | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 result | det |
| 6 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Falling | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 depression | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 depression | det |
| 9 | depression | depression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 result | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 1847 | case |
| 11 | 1847 | 1847 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 depression | nmod |
| 12 | stalled | stall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 development | amod |
| 14 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stalled | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prompted | cc |
| 16 | prompted | prompt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stalled | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 governor | det |
| 18 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prompted | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 introduce | mark |
| 20 | introduce | introduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 prompted | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 series | det |
| 22 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 introduce | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 taxes | case |
| 24 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 series | nmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 firearms | case |
| 26 | firearms | firearm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 taxes | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dogs | punct |
| 28 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 firearms | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 shops | punct |
| 30 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 firearms | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 boats | punct |
| 32 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 firearms | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 etc. | punct |
| 34 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 32 boats | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 reintroduce | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 reintroduce | cc |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 reintroduce | mark |
| 38 | reintroduce | reintroduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stalled | conj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 form | det |
| 40 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 reintroduce | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 rajakariya | case |
| 42 | rajakariya | rajakariya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 form | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 requiring | punct |
| 44 | requiring | require | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 reintroduce | advcl |
| 45 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 days | nummod |
| 46 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 requiring | obj |
| 47 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 labour | amod |
| 48 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 requiring | obj |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 50 roads | case |
| 50 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 labour | nmod |
| 51 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 52 payment | cc |
| 52 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 roads | conj |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 equivalent | case |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 equivalent | det |
| 55 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 equivalent | compound |
| 56 | equivalent | equivalent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 payment | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stalled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | gerund | coffee prices | as a result of the depression of 1847 | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient price=Result | ||||
| 2 | stall | past | Falling | economic development | vn delay-53.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent development=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | prompt | past | Falling not said here | the governor | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition governor=Patient | ||||
| 4 | introduce | to-infinitive | Falling not said here | a series of taxes on firearms and dogs and shops and boats and etc. | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent series=Patient | ||||
| 5 | reintroduce | to-infinitive | Falling not said here | a form of rajakariya | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | require | gerund | Falling not said here | free labour | roads or payment of a cash equivalent | day | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme labour=Precondition | ||
| 7 | result | the depression of 1847 | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | form | rajakariya | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | pay | a cash equivalent | nom payment «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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