Sri Lanka, sentence 88
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.
Unlike previous invaders, he looted, ransacked and destroyed everything in the ancient Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa Kingdoms beyond recovery.
Who acts: Kingdom · What happens: loot, ransack, destroy · To what, where: everything, ancient Anuradhapura
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 (Kingdom), 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 | Unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 3 invaders | case |
| 2 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 invaders | amod |
| 3 | invaders | invader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looted | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 invaders | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looted | nsubj |
| 6 | looted | loot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ransacked | punct |
| 8 | ransacked | ransack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looted | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 destroyed | cc |
| 10 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ransacked | conj |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 destroyed | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Anuradhapura | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Anuradhapura | det |
| 14 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Anuradhapura | amod |
| 15 | Anuradhapura | Anuradhapura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 destroyed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Kingdoms | cc |
| 17 | Polonnaruwa | Polonnaruwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Kingdoms | compound |
| 18 | Kingdoms | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 Anuradhapura | conj |
| 19 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 20 recovery | case |
| 20 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 destroyed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loot | past | Kingdom | unlike previous invaders | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ransack | past | Kingdom not said here | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | destroy | past | Kingdom not said here | everything | the ancient Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa Kingdoms | beyond recovery | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=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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