Sri Lanka, sentence 83
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.
His most famous construction is the Parakrama Samudra, the largest irrigation project of mediaeval Sri Lanka.
Who acts: famous construction, Sri · What happens: be, construct, project · To what, where: Parakrama Samudra, Sri
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 (famous construction, Sri), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 construction | nmod:poss |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 famous | advmod |
| 3 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 construction | amod |
| 4 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Samudra | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Samudra | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Samudra | det |
| 7 | Parakrama | Parakrama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Samudra | compound |
| 8 | Samudra | Samudra | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 project | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 project | det |
| 11 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 project | amod |
| 12 | irrigation | irrigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 project | compound |
| 13 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Samudra | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Sri | case |
| 15 | mediaeval | mediaeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Sri | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 project | nmod |
| 17 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sri | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Samudra | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sri's famous construction | the Parakrama Samudra | the largest irrigation project of Sri mediaeval appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | construct | Sri | nom construction «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | project | Sri mediaeval | nom project «act 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.
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