Sri Lanka, sentence 240
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.
Sri Lanka contains four terrestrial ecoregions: Sri Lanka lowland rain forests, Sri Lanka montane rain forests, Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests, and Deccan thorn scrub forests.
Who acts: Sri, dry zone · What happens: contain, forest · To what, where: four terrestrial ecoregions, Sri
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 (Sri, dry zone), 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 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 contains | nsubj |
| 2 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sri | flat |
| 3 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 ecoregions | nummod |
| 5 | terrestrial | terrestrial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ecoregions | amod |
| 6 | ecoregions | ecoregion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 contains | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 forests | punct |
| 8 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 forests | nsubj |
| 9 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sri | flat |
| 10 | lowland | lowland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forests | compound |
| 11 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forests | compound |
| 12 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ecoregions | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sri | punct |
| 14 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 forests | appos |
| 15 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sri | flat |
| 16 | montane | montane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 forests | compound |
| 17 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 forests | compound |
| 18 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 forests | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Sri | punct |
| 20 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 forests | nmod |
| 21 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Sri | flat |
| 22 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 zone | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 dry | punct |
| 24 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 forests | nsubj |
| 25 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 forests | amod |
| 26 | evergreen | evergreen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 forests | compound |
| 27 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Sri | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 forests | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 forests | cc |
| 30 | Deccan | deccan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 forests | amod |
| 31 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 scrub | compound |
| 32 | scrub | scrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 forests | compound |
| 33 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 forests | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | Sri | four terrestrial ecoregions | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ecoregion=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forest | Sri | Sri | montane rain forests conj; Deccan scrub forests conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | forest | dry zone | Sri not said here | 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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