Sri Lanka, sentence 503
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.
The earliest music in Sri Lanka came from theatrical performances such as Kolam, Sokari and Nadagam.
Who acts: earliest music · What happens: come · To what, where: theatrical performances
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 (earliest music), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 music | det |
| 2 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 music | amod |
| 3 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Sri | case |
| 5 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 music | nmod |
| 6 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sri | flat |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 performances | case |
| 9 | theatrical | theatrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 performances | amod |
| 10 | performances | performance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 Kolam | case |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | Kolam | Kolam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 performances | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sokari | punct |
| 15 | Sokari | Sokari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kolam | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Nadagam | cc |
| 17 | Nadagam | Nadagam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kolam | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the earliest music in Sri | theatrical performances such Kolam and Sokari and Nadagam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from performance=Initial_Location |
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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