Sri Lanka, sentence 532
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.
Initially, all television stations were state-controlled, but private television networks began broadcasting in 1992.
Who acts: private television networks · What happens: control, begin, broadcast · To what, where: television stations, 1992
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 (private television networks), 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 | Initially | initially | ADV | _ | 9 controlled | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Initially | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 stations | det |
| 4 | television | television | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stations | compound |
| 5 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 controlled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 controlled | aux:pass |
| 7 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 controlled | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 state | punct |
| 9 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 12 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 networks | amod |
| 13 | television | television | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 networks | compound |
| 14 | networks | network | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 controlled | conj |
| 16 | broadcasting | broadcast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 began | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1992 | case |
| 18 | 1992 | 1992 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 broadcasting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 controlled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | control | past · passive | all television stations | state compound; initially property | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | private television networks | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | broadcast speech: other | gerund | private television networks not said here | 1992 | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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