Sri Lanka, sentence 84
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Parākramabāhu's reign is memorable for two major campaigns – in the south of India as part of a Pandyan war of succession, and a punitive strike against the kings of Ramanna (Burma) for various perceived insults to Sri Lanka.
Who acts: reign, succession · What happens: be, perceive, war
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 (reign, succession), 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 | Parākramabāhu | Parākramabāhu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reign | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Parākramabāhu | case |
| 3 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 memorable | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 memorable | cop |
| 5 | memorable | memorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 campaigns | case |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 campaigns | nummod |
| 8 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 campaigns | amod |
| 9 | campaigns | campaign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 memorable | obl |
| 10 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 south | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 south | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 south | det |
| 13 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 campaigns | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 India | case |
| 15 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 south | nmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 part | case |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 south | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 war | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 war | det |
| 20 | Pandyan | Pandyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 war | compound |
| 21 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 succession | case |
| 23 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 war | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 strike | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 strike | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 strike | det |
| 27 | punitive | punitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 strike | amod |
| 28 | strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 memorable | conj |
| 29 | against | against | ADP | _ | 31 kings | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 kings | det |
| 31 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 strike | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Ramanna | case |
| 33 | Ramanna | Ramanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 kings | nmod |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 Burma | punct |
| 35 | Burma | Burma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Ramanna | appos |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 Burma | punct |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 insults | case |
| 38 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 insults | amod |
| 39 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 insults | amod |
| 40 | insults | insult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 strike | nmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 Sri | case |
| 42 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 insults | nmod |
| 43 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Sri | flat |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 memorable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Parākramabāhu's reign | for two major campaigns; a punitive strike against the kings of Ramanna for various perceived insults to Sri conj; memorable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perceive | participle | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | war | succession | nom war «act intransitive»: of=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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