Sri Lanka, sentence 268
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.
Following the passage of the 19th amendment to the constitution in 2015, the president has two terms, which previously stood at no term limit.
Who acts: president, two terms, 19th amendment · What happens: follow, have, stand, pass · To what, where: term limit
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 (president, two terms, 19th amendment), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 passage | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 passage | det |
| 3 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 has | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 amendment | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 amendment | det |
| 6 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 7 amendment | amod |
| 7 | amendment | amendment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passage | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 constitution | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 constitution | det |
| 10 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 amendment | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 2015 | case |
| 12 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 constitution | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 passage | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 president | det |
| 15 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 has | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 terms | nummod |
| 18 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stood | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 stood | nsubj |
| 21 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 22 stood | advmod |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 has | parataxis |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 limit | case |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 limit | det |
| 25 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 limit | compound |
| 26 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | the president | follow the passage of the 19th amendment to the constitution in 2015 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | two terms | no term limit | which nsubj; previously property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at limit=Location | |||
| 4 | pass | the 19th amendment to the constitution in 2015 | nom passage «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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