Sri Lanka, sentence 302
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.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa lost the 2015 presidential elections, ending his ten-year presidency.
Who acts: Mahinda · What happens: lose, end · To what, where: 2015 presidential elections, year presidency
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 (Mahinda), 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 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mahinda | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Mahinda | Mahinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | Rajapaksa | Rajapaksa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mahinda | flat |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 elections | det |
| 6 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 elections | nummod |
| 7 | presidential | presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 elections | amod |
| 8 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lost | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ending | punct |
| 10 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 lost | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 presidency | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 year | nummod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ten | punct |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 presidency | compound |
| 15 | presidency | presidency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ending | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Mahinda President | the 2015 presidential elections | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | end | gerund | Mahinda President not said here | Mahinda's year presidency | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality presidency=Eventuality |
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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