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title: Prominent Tamil leaders including Ponnambalam and Arunachalam Mahade… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: Prominent Tamil leaders including Ponnambalam and Arunachalam Mahadeva joined his cabinet. Who acts: Prominent Tamil leaders. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 155

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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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Prominent Tamil leaders including Ponnambalam and Arunachalam Mahadeva joined his cabinet.

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**Who acts:** Prominent Tamil leaders · **What happens:** include, join · **To what, where:** cabinet

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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 (Prominent Tamil leaders), 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:155
# text = Prominent Tamil leaders including Ponnambalam and Arunachalam Mahadeva joined his cabinet.
1	Prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Tamil	Tamil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
5	Ponnambalam	Ponnambalam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Arunachalam	Arunachalam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	Mahadeva	Mahadeva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **join** | past | Prominent Tamil leaders include Ponnambalam and Arunachalam | Arunachalam's cabinet |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabinet=Patient |

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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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