Sri Lanka, sentence 148
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.
But without massive popular support, and with the governor's encouragement for "communal representation" by creating a "Colombo seat" that dangled between Sinhalese and Tamils, the Congress lost momentum towards the mid-1920s.
Who acts: encouragement, Colombo seat, Congress, governor · What happens: create, dangle, lose, encourage · To what, where: Colombo seat, Tamils, Sinhalese, momentum
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 (encouragement, Colombo seat, Congress, governor), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 lost | cc |
| 2 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 support | case |
| 3 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 support | amod |
| 4 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 support | amod |
| 5 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lost | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 encouragement | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 encouragement | cc |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 encouragement | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 governor | det |
| 10 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 encouragement | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 governor | case |
| 12 | encouragement | encouragement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 support | appos |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 representation | case |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 representation | punct |
| 15 | communal | communal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 representation | amod |
| 16 | representation | representation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 encouragement | nmod |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 representation | punct |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 creating | mark |
| 19 | creating | create | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 encouragement | acl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 seat | det |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 seat | punct |
| 22 | Colombo | Colombo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 seat | compound |
| 23 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 creating | obj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 seat | punct |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 dangled | nsubj |
| 26 | dangled | dangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seat | acl:relcl |
| 27 | between | between | ADP | _ | 28 Sinhalese | case |
| 28 | Sinhalese | Sinhalese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dangled | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Tamils | cc |
| 30 | Tamils | Tamil | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 dangled | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 support | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Congress | det |
| 33 | Congress | Congress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 lost | nsubj |
| 34 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | momentum | momentum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lost | obj |
| 36 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 38 mid-1920s | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 mid-1920s | det |
| 38 | mid-1920s | mid-1920 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 34 lost | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | gerund | the governor's encouragement for communal representation not said here | a Colombo seat | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Result | ||||
| 2 | dangle | past | a Colombo seat | Tamils | Sinhalese | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tamil=Theme between sinhalese=Destination | |||
| 3 | lose | past | the Congress | momentum | without massive popular support; towards the mid-1920s | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent momentum=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | encourage | the governor | for communal representation | nom encouragement «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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