Sri Lanka, sentence 557
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Sri Lankans have won two medals at Olympic Games: one silver, by Duncan White at the 1948 London Olympics for men's 400 metres hurdles; and one silver by Susanthika Jayasinghe at the 2000 Sydney Olympics for women's 200 metres.
Who acts: Sri Lankans · What happens: win, hurdle · To what, where: two medals, Olympic Games
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 (Sri Lankans), 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 | Sri | Sri | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Lankans | amod |
| 2 | Lankans | Lankan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 won | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 won | aux |
| 4 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 medals | nummod |
| 6 | medals | medal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 won | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Games | case |
| 8 | Olympic | olympic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Games | amod |
| 9 | Games | Game | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 medals | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 silver | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 silver | nummod |
| 12 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 medals | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 White | punct |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 White | case |
| 15 | Duncan | Duncan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 White | compound |
| 16 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 won | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 Olympics | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Olympics | det |
| 19 | 1948 | 1948 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 Olympics | nummod |
| 20 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Olympics | compound |
| 21 | Olympics | Olympic | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 White | nmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 metres | case |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 metres | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 men | case |
| 25 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 metres | nummod |
| 26 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hurdles | obl |
| 27 | hurdles | hurdle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 won | parataxis |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 silver | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 silver | cc |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 silver | nummod |
| 31 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 won | parataxis |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 Susanthika | case |
| 33 | Susanthika | Susanthika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 silver | nmod |
| 34 | Jayasinghe | Jayasinghe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Susanthika | flat |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 Olympics | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Olympics | det |
| 37 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 Olympics | nummod |
| 38 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Olympics | compound |
| 39 | Olympics | Olympic | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 silver | nmod |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 metres | case |
| 41 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 metres | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 women | case |
| 43 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 44 metres | nummod |
| 44 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 Olympics | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present · perfect | Sri Lankans | two medals and one silver | Olympic Games | by Duncan White at the 1948 London Olympics; one silver by Susanthika at the 2000 Sydney Olympics for women's 200 metres parataxis | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent medal=Theme at game=Asset | ||
| 2 | hurdle | present | for men's 400 metres | tree rules |
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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