Sri Lanka, sentence 56
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.
It is probable that many of the scriptures from Nalanda are preserved in Sri Lanka's many monasteries and that the written form of the Tripiṭaka, including Sinhalese Buddhist literature, were part of the University of Nalanda.
Who acts: mission, written form · What happens: be, preserve, write, form · To what, where: many, many monasteries, part, Tripiṭaka
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, written form), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 probable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 probable | cop |
| 3 | probable | probable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 preserved | mark |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 preserved | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 scriptures | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 scriptures | det |
| 8 | scriptures | scripture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 many | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Nalanda | case |
| 10 | Nalanda | Nalanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 scriptures | nmod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 preserved | aux:pass |
| 12 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 probable | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 monasteries | case |
| 14 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 monasteries | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sri | flat |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Sri | case |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 monasteries | amod |
| 18 | monasteries | monastery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 preserved | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 part | cc |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 part | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 form | det |
| 22 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 form | amod |
| 23 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 part | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Tripiṭaka | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Tripiṭaka | det |
| 26 | Tripiṭaka | Tripiṭaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 form | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 literature | punct |
| 28 | including | including | ADP | _ | 31 literature | case |
| 29 | Sinhalese | Sinhalese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 literature | amod |
| 30 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 literature | amod |
| 31 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Tripiṭaka | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 literature | punct |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 part | cop |
| 34 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 monasteries | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 University | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 University | det |
| 37 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 part | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Nalanda | case |
| 39 | Nalanda | Nalanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 University | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 probable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | mission | probable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | preserve | present · passive | many of the scriptures from Nalanda | Sri's many monasteries and part | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | the written form of the Tripiṭaka | part | of the University of Nalanda | tree rules | |||
| 5 | form | the Tripiṭaka | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Sri Lanka», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/56/