Sri Lanka, sentence 197
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.
On the same day the President's House was stormed, protesters besieged and stormed the private residence of the prime minister and burnt it down.
Who acts: protesters · What happens: storm, besiege, burnt down · To what, where: House, private residence, residence
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 (protesters), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 besieged | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 President | det |
| 6 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 House | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 President | case |
| 8 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stormed | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stormed | aux:pass |
| 10 | stormed | storm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 day | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 12 | protesters | protester | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 besieged | nsubj |
| 13 | besieged | besiege | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stormed | cc |
| 15 | stormed | storm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 besieged | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 residence | det |
| 17 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 residence | amod |
| 18 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stormed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 minister | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 minister | det |
| 21 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 minister | amod |
| 22 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 residence | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 burnt | cc |
| 24 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 besieged | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 burnt | obj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 burnt | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 besieged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | storm | past · passive | the President's House | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | besiege | past | protesters | day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | storm | past | protesters not said here | the private residence of the prime minister | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | burnt down | past | protesters not said here | residence | 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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