Sri Lanka, sentence 66
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 council was held in response to a year in which the harvests in Sri Lanka were particularly poor and many Buddhist monks subsequently died of starvation.
Who acts: harvests, many Buddhist monks · What happens: hold, be, die · To what, where: council, response
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 (harvests, many Buddhist monks), 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 | 2 council | det |
| 2 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 held | aux:pass |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 response | case |
| 6 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 year | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 response | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 poor | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 harvests | det |
| 13 | harvests | harvest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 poor | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Sri | case |
| 15 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 harvests | nmod |
| 16 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sri | flat |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 poor | cop |
| 18 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 19 poor | advmod |
| 19 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 year | acl:relcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 died | cc |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 monks | amod |
| 22 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 monks | amod |
| 23 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 died | nsubj |
| 24 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 25 died | advmod |
| 25 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 poor | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 starvation | case |
| 27 | starvation | starvation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 died | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | the council | response to a year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in response=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the harvests in Sri | in a year | particularly, poor property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | die | past | many Buddhist monks | of starvation; subsequently property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of starvation=Causer |
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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