Sri Lanka, sentence 457
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.
Most followers on the island today are Sunni who follow the Shafi'i school and are believed to be descendants of Arab traders and the local women whom they married.
Who acts: Most followers, followers · What happens: be, follow, believe, marry · To what, where: Shafi'i school, descendants, Arab traders
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 (Most followers, followers), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 followers | amod |
| 2 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Sunni | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 island | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 island | det |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followers | nmod |
| 6 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 island | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Sunni | cop |
| 8 | Sunni | Sunni | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 follow | nsubj |
| 10 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Sunni | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 school | det |
| 12 | Shafi'i | Shafi'i | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 school | compound |
| 13 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 follow | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 believed | cc |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 believed | aux:pass |
| 16 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 follow | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 descendants | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 descendants | cop |
| 19 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 believed | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 traders | case |
| 21 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 traders | amod |
| 22 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 descendants | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 women | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 women | det |
| 25 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 women | amod |
| 26 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 traders | conj |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 married | obj |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 married | nsubj |
| 29 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 traders | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sunni | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Most followers on the island today | sunni property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | present | the Shafi'i school | who nsubj | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme | ||||
| 3 | believe | present · passive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | ||||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | descendants | of Arab traders and the local women | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | marry | past | followers = follower | Arab traders and the local women | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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