Sri Lanka, sentence 326
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.
Local authorities were originally based on feudal counties named korale and rata, and were formerly known as "D.R.O. divisions" after the divisional revenue officer.
Who acts: feudal counties · What happens: base, name, know · To what, where: Local authorities, feudal counties, korale
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 (feudal counties), 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 | Local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 authorities | amod |
| 2 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 based | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 based | aux:pass |
| 4 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 5 based | advmod |
| 5 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 counties | case |
| 7 | feudal | feudal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 counties | amod |
| 8 | counties | county | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 based | obl |
| 9 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 counties | acl |
| 10 | korale | korale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 named | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rata | cc |
| 12 | rata | rata | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 korale | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 known | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 known | cc |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 known | aux:pass |
| 16 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 17 known | advmod |
| 17 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 based | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 D.R.O | case |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 D.R.O | punct |
| 20 | D.R.O | D.R.O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 known | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 D.R.O | punct |
| 22 | divisions | division | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 D.R.O | flat |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 D.R.O | punct |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 officer | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 officer | det |
| 26 | divisional | divisional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 officer | amod |
| 27 | revenue | revenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 officer | compound |
| 28 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 known | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 based | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | base | past · passive | Local authorities | feudal counties | originally property | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on county=Source | |||
| 2 | name | participle | feudal counties not said here | korale and rata | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | know | past · passive | after the divisional revenue officer | as D.R.O; formerly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as d.r.o=Attribute |
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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