Sri Lanka, sentence 24
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.
The Tamil term Eelam (ஈழம்) was used to designate the whole island in Sangam literature.
What happens: use, designate · To what, where: Tamil term, whole island, Sangam literature
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 term | det |
| 2 | Tamil | Tamil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 term | compound |
| 3 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 used | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | Eelam | Eelam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 term | appos |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 ் | punct |
| 6 | ஈழம | ஈழம | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ் | compound |
| 7 | ் | ் | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 term | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 ் | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 used | aux:pass |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 designate | mark |
| 12 | designate | designate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 used | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 island | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 island | amod |
| 15 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 designate | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 literature | case |
| 17 | Sangam | Sangam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 literature | compound |
| 18 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 designate | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | the Tamil term | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | designate | to-infinitive | the whole island | Sangam literature | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme |
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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