--- title: Falling coffee prices as a result of the depression of 1847 stalled… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics description: Falling coffee prices as a result of the depression of 1847 stalled economic development and prompted the governor to introduce a series of taxes on firearms, dogs, shops, boats, etc., and to reintroduce a form of rajakariya, requiring six days free labour on roads or payment of a cash equivalent. 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Falling coffee prices as a result of the depression of 1847 stalled economic development and prompted the governor to introduce a series of taxes on firearms, dogs, shops, boats, etc., and to reintroduce a form of rajakariya, requiring six days free labour on roads or payment of a cash equivalent. **Who acts:** Falling · **What happens:** fall, stall, prompt, introduce, reintroduce, require · **To what, where:** coffee prices, economic development, governor, series, form, free labour 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 (Falling), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Sri_Lanka:136 # text = Falling coffee prices as a result of the depression of 1847 stalled economic development and prompted the governor to introduce a series of taxes on firearms, dogs, shops, boats, etc., and to reintroduce a form of rajakariya, requiring six days free labour on roads or payment of a cash equivalent. 1 Falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 2 coffee coffee NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 depression depression NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 1847 1847 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nmod _ _ 12 stalled stall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 economic economic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 development development NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 prompted prompt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 governor governor NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 introduce introduce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 series series NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 firearms firearm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 etc. etc. NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 reintroduce reintroduce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 rajakariya rajakariya NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 requiring require VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 45 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 46 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 47 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 49 on on ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nmod _ _ 51 or or CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 payment payment NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 55 cash cash NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 56 equivalent equivalent NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | gerund | | coffee prices | | | | as a result of the depression of 1847 | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient price=Result | | 2 | **stall** | past | Falling | economic development | | | | | vn delay-53.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent development=Eventuality | | 3 | **prompt** | past | Falling *not said here* | the governor | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition governor=Patient | | 4 | **introduce** | to-infinitive | Falling *not said here* | a series of taxes on firearms and dogs and shops and boats and etc. | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent series=Patient | | 5 | **reintroduce** | to-infinitive | Falling *not said here* | a form of rajakariya | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **require** | gerund | Falling *not said here* | free labour | | roads or payment of a cash equivalent | day | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme labour=Precondition | | 7 | **result** | | | the depression of 1847 | | | | | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **form** | | | rajakariya | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **pay** | | | a cash equivalent | | | | | nom payment «possession 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Sri Lanka», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0. - ← previous: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/135/) - next →: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/137/) - ↑ back to [Sri Lanka](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/)