Sri Lanka, sentence 199
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.
He implemented various economic reforms in efforts to stabilise Sri Lanka's economy, which has shown slight improvement since.
Who acts: Wickremesinghe, economy · What happens: implement, stabilise, show · To what, where: various economic reforms, efforts, economy, slight improvement
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 (Wickremesinghe, economy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 implemented | nsubj |
| 2 | implemented | implement | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reforms | amod |
| 4 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reforms | amod |
| 5 | reforms | reform | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 implemented | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 efforts | case |
| 7 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 implemented | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stabilise | mark |
| 9 | stabilise | stabilise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 implemented | advcl |
| 10 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 economy | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sri | flat |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Sri | case |
| 13 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stabilise | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shown | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 shown | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shown | aux |
| 17 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 economy | acl:relcl |
| 18 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 improvement | amod |
| 19 | improvement | improvement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shown | obj |
| 20 | since | since | ADV | _ | 17 shown | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 implemented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | implement | past | Wickremesinghe | various economic reforms | efforts | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reform=Patient | |||
| 2 | stabilise | to-infinitive | Wickremesinghe not said here | Sri's economy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show | present · perfect | Sri's economy | slight improvement | since property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent improvement=Recipient |
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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