Sri Lanka, sentence 475
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Thus the elite national schools are controlled directly by the ministry of education and the provincial schools by the provincial government.
Who acts: provincial government · What happens: control · To what, where: elite national schools
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 (provincial government), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 controlled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 schools | det |
| 3 | elite | elite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 schools | amod |
| 4 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 schools | amod |
| 5 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 controlled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 controlled | aux:pass |
| 7 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 7 controlled | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 ministry | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ministry | det |
| 11 | ministry | ministry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 controlled | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 education | case |
| 13 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ministry | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 schools | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 schools | det |
| 16 | provincial | provincial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 schools | amod |
| 17 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ministry | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 government | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 government | det |
| 20 | provincial | provincial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 government | amod |
| 21 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 controlled | obl:agent |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 controlled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | control | present · passive | the provincial government | the elite national schools | by the ministry of education and the provincial schools; directly, thus property | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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