Sri Lanka, sentence 77
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.
Following a 17-year-long campaign, Vijayabahu I successfully drove the Chola out of Sri Lanka in 1070, reuniting the country for the first time in over a century.
Who acts: Vijayabahu · What happens: follow, drive, reunite · To what, where: Chola, Sri, 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 (Vijayabahu), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 campaign | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 campaign | det |
| 3 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 year | nummod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 17 | punct |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 long | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 year | punct |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 campaign | amod |
| 8 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drove | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 campaign | punct |
| 10 | Vijayabahu | Vijayabahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 drove | nsubj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Vijayabahu | flat |
| 12 | successfully | successfully | ADV | _ | 13 drove | advmod |
| 13 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Chola | det |
| 15 | Chola | Chola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 drove | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 Sri | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Sri | case |
| 18 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 drove | obl |
| 19 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Sri | flat |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 1070 | case |
| 21 | 1070 | 1070 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 drove | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reuniting | punct |
| 23 | reuniting | reunite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 drove | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 country | det |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reuniting | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 28 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 time | amod |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reuniting | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADV | _ | 29 time | advmod |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 33 century | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 century | det |
| 33 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reuniting | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | drive | past | Vijayabahu | the Chola | Sri | follow a long campaign; in 1070; successfully property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent chola=Theme out sri=Destination in 1070=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | reunite | gerund | Vijayabahu not said here | the country | century; time | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Co-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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