Sri Lanka, sentence 353

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.

Since independence in 1948, the primary focus of the armed forces has been internal security, crushing three major insurgencies, two by Marxist militants of the JVP and a 26-year-long conflict with the LTTE.

Who acts: primary focus, internal security · What happens: be, crush, focus · To what, where: internal security, three major insurgencies, armed forces

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 (primary focus, internal security), 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	Since	since	ADP	_	2 independence	case
2	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 security	obl
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 1948	case
4	1948	1948	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 independence	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 independence	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 focus	det
7	primary	primary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 focus	amod
8	focus	focus	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 security	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 forces	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forces	det
11	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 forces	amod
12	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 focus	nmod
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 security	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 security	cop
15	internal	internal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 security	amod
16	security	security	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 crushing	punct
18	crushing	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 security	acl
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 insurgencies	nummod
20	major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 insurgencies	amod
21	insurgencies	insurgency	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 crushing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 two	punct
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 insurgencies	appos
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 militants	case
25	Marxist	marxist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 militants	amod
26	militants	militant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 crushing	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 JVP	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 JVP	det
29	JVP	jvp	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 militants	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 conflict	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 conflict	det
32	26	26	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 year	nummod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 26	punct
34	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 long	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 year	punct
36	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 conflict	amod
37	conflict	conflict	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 JVP	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 LTTE	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 LTTE	det
40	LTTE	LTTE	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 conflict	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 security	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present · perfect	the primary focus of the armed forces	internal security	since independence in 1948		tree rules
2	crush	gerund	internal security not said here	three major insurgencies		by Marxist militants of the JVP and a long conflict with the LTTE	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insurgency=Patient
3	focus			the armed forces			nom focus «cognition transitive»: of=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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Sri Lanka, sentence 353