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description: But without massive popular support, and with the governor's encouragement for "communal representation" by creating a "Colombo seat" that dangled between Sinhalese and Tamils, the Congress lost momentum towards the mid-1920s. Who acts: encouragement, Colombo seat, Congress, governor. A sentence of 
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 148

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From Wikipedia, [«Sri Lanka»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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But without massive popular support, and with the governor's encouragement for "communal representation" by creating a "Colombo seat" that dangled between Sinhalese and Tamils, the Congress lost momentum towards the mid-1920s.

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**Who acts:** encouragement, Colombo seat, Congress, governor · **What happens:** create, dangle, lose, encourage · **To what, where:** Colombo seat, Tamils, Sinhalese, momentum

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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 (encouragement, Colombo seat, Congress, governor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:148
# text = But without massive popular support, and with the governor's encouragement for "communal representation" by creating a "Colombo seat" that dangled between Sinhalese and Tamils, the Congress lost momentum towards the mid-1920s.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
2	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	encouragement	encouragement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	communal	communal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	representation	representation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	creating	create	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Colombo	Colombo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	dangled	dangle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	between	between	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Sinhalese	Sinhalese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	Tamils	Tamil	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	momentum	momentum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	mid-1920s	mid-1920	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **create** | gerund | the governor's encouragement for communal representation *not said here* | a Colombo seat |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Result |
| 2 | **dangle** | past | a Colombo seat | Tamils |  | Sinhalese |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tamil=Theme between sinhalese=Destination |
| 3 | **lose** | past | the Congress | momentum |  |  |  | without massive popular support; towards the mid-1920s | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent momentum=Eventuality |
| 4 | **encourage** |  | the governor |  |  |  |  | for communal representation | nom encouragement «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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**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.

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