Sri Lanka, sentence 289
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.
It is the only political group which had representation in all parliaments since independence.
Who acts: number, only political group · What happens: be, have · To what, where: only political group, representation, parliaments
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 (number, only political group), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 group | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 group | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 group | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 group | amod |
| 5 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 group | amod |
| 6 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 group | acl:relcl |
| 9 | representation | representation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 parliaments | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 parliaments | det |
| 12 | parliaments | parliament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obl |
| 13 | since | since | ADP | _ | 14 independence | case |
| 14 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 group | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | number | the only political group | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the only political group | representation | all parliaments | since independence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent representation=Patient |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Sri Lanka», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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