Sri Lanka, sentence 53
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.
His mission won over the monarch, who embraced the faith and propagated it throughout the Sinhalese population.
Who acts: mission, monarch · What happens: win, embrace, propagate · To what, where: monarch, faith
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 (mission, monarch), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mission | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 won | nsubj |
| 3 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 monarch | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monarch | det |
| 6 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 won | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 embraced | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 embraced | nsubj |
| 9 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 monarch | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 faith | det |
| 11 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 embraced | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 propagated | cc |
| 13 | propagated | propagate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 embraced | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 propagated | obj |
| 15 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 18 population | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 population | det |
| 17 | Sinhalese | Sinhalese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 population | amod |
| 18 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 propagated | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | Buddhism's mission | the monarch | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | embrace | past | the monarch | the faith | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | propagate | past | the monarch not said here | faith | throughout the Sinhalese population | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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