Sri Lanka, sentence 139
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.
The British quickly found a replacement: abandoning coffee, they began cultivating tea instead.
Who acts: British, disease · What happens: find, abandon, begin, cultivate · To what, where: replacement, coffee, tea
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 (British, disease), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 British | det |
| 2 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 found | nsubj |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 found | advmod |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 replacement | det |
| 6 | replacement | replacement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 abandoning | punct |
| 8 | abandoning | abandon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 found | advcl |
| 9 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 abandoning | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 13 | cultivating | cultivate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 began | xcomp |
| 14 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cultivating | obj |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 13 cultivating | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the British | a replacement | quickly property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent replacement=Topic | |||
| 2 | abandon | gerund | the British not said here | coffee | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme coffee=Source | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | disease | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cultivate | gerund | disease not said here | tea | instead property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Product |
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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