Sri Lanka, sentence 61
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 next invasion came immediately in 205 BCE by a Chola named Elara, who overthrew Asela and ruled the country for 44 years.
Who acts: next invasion, Elara · What happens: come, name, overthrow, rule · To what, where: 205, Chola, Asela, country
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 (next invasion, Elara), 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 invasion | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 invasion | amod |
| 3 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 205 | case |
| 7 | 205 | 205 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | BCE | BCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 205 | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 named | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 named | det |
| 11 | Chola | Chola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 named | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | advcl |
| 13 | Elara | Elara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 named | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 overthrew | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 overthrew | nsubj |
| 16 | overthrew | overthrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Elara | acl:relcl |
| 17 | Asela | Asela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 overthrew | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ruled | cc |
| 19 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 overthrew | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ruled | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 23 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ruled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the next invasion | 205 BCE | immediately property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 205=Location | |||
| 2 | name | participle · passive | Chola | Elara xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | overthrow | past | Elara | Asela | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rule | past | Elara not said here | the country | year | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=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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