Sri Lanka, sentence 415
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.
The railway network, operated by the state-run National Railway operator Sri Lanka Railways, spans 1447 km.
Who acts: railway network · What happens: operate, span · To what, where: railway network, 1447 km
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 (railway network), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 network | det |
| 2 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 network | compound |
| 3 | network | network | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spans | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 operated | punct |
| 5 | operated | operate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 network | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 run | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 run | det |
| 8 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 run | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 state | punct |
| 10 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 operated | obl |
| 11 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Sri | amod |
| 12 | Railway | Railway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sri | compound |
| 13 | operator | Operator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sri | compound |
| 14 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 run | nmod |
| 15 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sri | flat |
| 16 | Railways | Railway | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Sri | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 network | punct |
| 18 | spans | span | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | 1447 | 1447 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 km | nummod |
| 20 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spans | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 spans | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | operate | participle | the railway network not said here | by the state run National Railway operator Sri | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | span | present | the railway network | 1447 km | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme km=Co-Theme |
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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