Sri Lanka, sentence 155
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.
Prominent Tamil leaders including Ponnambalam and Arunachalam Mahadeva joined his cabinet.
Who acts: Prominent Tamil leaders · What happens: include, join · To what, where: cabinet
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 (Prominent Tamil leaders), 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 | Prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leaders | amod |
| 2 | Tamil | Tamil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leaders | amod |
| 3 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 joined | nsubj |
| 4 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Ponnambalam | case |
| 5 | Ponnambalam | Ponnambalam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 leaders | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Arunachalam | cc |
| 7 | Arunachalam | Arunachalam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ponnambalam | conj |
| 8 | Mahadeva | Mahadeva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Arunachalam | flat |
| 9 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cabinet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cabinet | cabinet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 joined | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | join | past | Prominent Tamil leaders include Ponnambalam and Arunachalam | Arunachalam's cabinet | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabinet=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Sri Lanka», 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/155/