Sri Lanka, sentence 142
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.
By the end of the 19th century, a new educated social class transcending race and caste arose through British attempts to staff the Ceylon Civil Service and the legal, educational, engineering, and medical professions with natives.
Who acts: new educated social class · What happens: transcend, arise, engineer · To what, where: race, British attempts
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 (new educated social class), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arose | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 century | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 century | det |
| 6 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 7 century | amod |
| 7 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 class | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 class | amod |
| 11 | educated | educated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 class | amod |
| 12 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 class | amod |
| 13 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arose | nsubj |
| 14 | transcending | transcend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 class | acl |
| 15 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 transcending | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 caste | cc |
| 17 | caste | caste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 race | conj |
| 18 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 attempts | case |
| 20 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 attempts | amod |
| 21 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 arose | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 staff | case |
| 23 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arose | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Service | det |
| 25 | Ceylon | Ceylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Service | compound |
| 26 | Civil | Civil | PROPN | _ | 27 Service | compound |
| 27 | Service | Service | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 staff | appos |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 professions | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 professions | det |
| 30 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 professions | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 educational | punct |
| 32 | educational | educational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 legal | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 engineering | punct |
| 34 | engineering | engineer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 educational | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 professions | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 professions | cc |
| 37 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 professions | amod |
| 38 | professions | profession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Service | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 natives | case |
| 40 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 professions | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transcend | gerund | a new educated social class not said here | race and caste | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot race=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | a new educated social class | British attempts | by the end of the 19th century | to staff | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by end=Location | ||
| 3 | engineer | gerund | a new educated social class not said here | 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.
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