Sri Lanka, sentence 367
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After her visit, she said: "The war may have ended [in Sri Lanka], but in the meantime, democracy has been undermined and the rule of law eroded."
Who acts: Navanethem, war, rule, law · What happens: say, end, undermine, erode, visit, rule · To what, where: Sri, democracy, meantime · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Navanethem, war, rule, law), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 visit | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 visit | nmod:poss |
| 3 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 visit | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 ended | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 ended | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 war | det |
| 10 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ended | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 ended | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ended | aux |
| 13 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sri | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Sri | case |
| 16 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ended | obl |
| 17 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sri | flat |
| 18 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sri | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 undermined | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 undermined | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 meantime | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 meantime | det |
| 23 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 undermined | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 meantime | punct |
| 25 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 undermined | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 undermined | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 undermined | aux:pass |
| 28 | undermined | undermine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 eroded | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 rule | det |
| 31 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 eroded | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 law | case |
| 33 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rule | nmod |
| 34 | eroded | erode | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 undermined | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Navanethem | after Navanethem's visit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | end in a quote | may · perfect | the war | Sri | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | undermine in a quote | present · perfect · passive | democracy | the meantime | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | erode in a quote | past | the rule of law | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | visit | Navanethem | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | rule in a quote | law | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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