Sri Lanka, sentence 441
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.
Members of the Burgher community speak variant forms of Portuguese Creole and Dutch with varying proficiency, while members of the Malay community speak a form of Creole Malay that is unique to the island.
Who acts: Members, Creole Malay · What happens: speak, vary, be, form · To what, where: variant forms, proficiency, form, Portuguese Creole, Creole Malay · 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 (Members, Creole Malay), 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 | Members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 community | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 community | det |
| 4 | Burgher | Burgher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 community | compound |
| 5 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Members | nmod |
| 6 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | variant | variant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forms | amod |
| 8 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 speak | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Creole | case |
| 10 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Creole | amod |
| 11 | Creole | Creole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 forms | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Dutch | cc |
| 13 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Creole | conj |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 varying | mark |
| 15 | varying | vary | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 Dutch | advcl |
| 16 | proficiency | proficiency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 varying | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 speak | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 speak | mark |
| 19 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 speak | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 community | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 community | det |
| 22 | Malay | malay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 community | amod |
| 23 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 members | nmod |
| 24 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 speak | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 form | det |
| 26 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 speak | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Malay | case |
| 28 | Creole | Creole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Malay | compound |
| 29 | Malay | malay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 form | nmod |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 unique | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 unique | cop |
| 32 | unique | unique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Malay | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 island | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 island | det |
| 35 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 unique | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | Members of the Burgher community | variant forms of Portuguese Creole | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vary | gerund | Members of the Burgher community not said here | proficiency | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer proficiency=Patient | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | infinitive | members of the Malay community | a form of Creole Malay | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Creole Malay | to the island; unique property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | form | Portuguese Creole | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | form | Creole Malay | nom form «communication 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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