Sri Lanka, sentence 281
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.
A judicial service commission, composed of the chief justice and two Supreme Court judges, appoints, transfers, and dismisses lower court judges.
Who acts: judicial service commission · What happens: compose, dismiss · To what, where: judicial service commission, lower court judges
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 (judicial service commission), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 commission | det |
| 2 | judicial | judicial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 commission | amod |
| 3 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 commission | compound |
| 4 | commission | commission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dismisses | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 composed | punct |
| 6 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 commission | acl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 justice | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 justice | det |
| 9 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 justice | amod |
| 10 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 composed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 judges | cc |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 judges | nummod |
| 13 | Supreme | Supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Court | amod |
| 14 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 judges | compound |
| 15 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 justice | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appoints | punct |
| 17 | appoints | appoint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 judges | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 transfers | punct |
| 19 | transfers | transfer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 judges | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dismisses | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dismisses | cc |
| 22 | dismisses | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 judges | amod |
| 24 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 judges | compound |
| 25 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 dismisses | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 dismisses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compose | participle | a judicial service commission not said here | of the chief justice and two Court judges and appoints and transfers | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dismiss | present | a judicial service commission | lower court judges | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judge=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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