Sri Lanka, sentence 256
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.
Statistics of Sri Lanka's forest cover show rapid deforestation from 1956 to 2010.
Who acts: Statistics · What happens: show · To what, where: rapid deforestation, 1956
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 (Statistics), 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 | Statistics | statistic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 show | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cover | case |
| 3 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 forest | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sri | flat |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Sri | case |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cover | compound |
| 7 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Statistics | nmod |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 deforestation | amod |
| 10 | deforestation | deforestation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 show | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 1956 | case |
| 12 | 1956 | 1956 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 show | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 2010 | case |
| 14 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 1956 | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Statistics of forest cover | rapid deforestation | 1956 to 2010 | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent deforestation=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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