Sri Lanka, sentence 420
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.
In September 2021 the government declared an economic emergency, as the situation was further aggravated by falling national currency exchange rate, inflation rising as a result of high food prices, and pandemic restrictions in tourism which further decreased country's income.
Who acts: government, inflation, tourism · What happens: declare, aggravate, fall, rise, decrease, result · To what, where: economic emergency, situation, national exchange rate, income, high food prices
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 (government, inflation, tourism), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 September | case |
| 2 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 declared | obl |
| 3 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 September | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 government | det |
| 5 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 declared | nsubj |
| 6 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 emergency | det |
| 8 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 emergency | amod |
| 9 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 declared | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 aggravated | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 aggravated | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 situation | det |
| 13 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 aggravated | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 aggravated | aux:pass |
| 15 | further | further | ADV | _ | 16 aggravated | advmod |
| 16 | aggravated | aggravate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 declared | conj |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 falling | mark |
| 18 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 aggravated | advcl |
| 19 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rate | amod |
| 20 | currency | currency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 exchange | compound |
| 21 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rate | compound |
| 22 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 falling | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 inflation | punct |
| 24 | inflation | inflation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 falling | obl |
| 25 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 inflation | acl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 result | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 result | det |
| 28 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rising | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 prices | case |
| 30 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 prices | amod |
| 31 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 prices | compound |
| 32 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 result | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 restrictions | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 restrictions | cc |
| 35 | pandemic | pandemic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 restrictions | compound |
| 36 | restrictions | restriction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 declared | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 tourism | case |
| 38 | tourism | tourism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 restrictions | nmod |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 decreased | nsubj |
| 40 | further | further | ADV | _ | 41 decreased | advmod |
| 41 | decreased | decrease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 tourism | acl:relcl |
| 42 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 income | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 country | case |
| 44 | income | income | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 decreased | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the government | a economic emergency | september | pandemic restrictions in tourism obl | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emergency=Attribute | ||
| 2 | aggravate | past · passive | the situation | further property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | fall | gerund | national exchange rate | inflation obl | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient rate=Result | ||||
| 4 | rise | gerund | inflation not said here | as a result of high food prices | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | decrease | past | tourism | country's income | further property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer income=Patient | |||
| 6 | result | high food prices | nom result «phenomenon 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.
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