Sri Lanka, sentence 451
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.
Hinduism was the dominant religion in Sri Lanka before the arrival of Buddhism in the 2nd century BCE.
Who acts: Hinduism, Buddhism · What happens: be, arrive · To what, where: dominant religion, Sri
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 (Hinduism, Buddhism), 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 | Hinduism | Hinduism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 religion | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 religion | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 religion | det |
| 4 | dominant | dominant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 religion | amod |
| 5 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Sri | case |
| 7 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 religion | nmod |
| 8 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sri | flat |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 arrival | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 arrival | det |
| 11 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 religion | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Buddhism | case |
| 13 | Buddhism | Buddhism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 arrival | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 century | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 century | det |
| 16 | 2nd | 2nd | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 17 century | amod |
| 17 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arrival | nmod |
| 18 | BCE | BCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 century | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 religion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Hinduism | the dominant religion | Sri | before the arrival of Buddhism in the 2nd century | tree rules | ||
| 2 | arrive | Buddhism | in the 2nd century | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent in=obl |
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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