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title: He implemented various economic reforms in efforts to stabilise Sri… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: He implemented various economic reforms in efforts to stabilise Sri Lanka's economy, which has shown slight improvement since. Who acts: Wickremesinghe, economy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 199

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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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He implemented various economic reforms in efforts to stabilise Sri Lanka's economy, which has shown slight improvement since.

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**Who acts:** Wickremesinghe, economy · **What happens:** implement, stabilise, show · **To what, where:** various economic reforms, efforts, economy, slight improvement

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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 (Wickremesinghe, economy), 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:199
# text = He implemented various economic reforms in efforts to stabilise Sri Lanka's economy, which has shown slight improvement since.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	implemented	implement	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reforms	reform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	stabilise	stabilise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
13	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	improvement	improvement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	since	since	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **implement** | past | Wickremesinghe | various economic reforms |  | efforts |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reform=Patient |
| 2 | **stabilise** | to-infinitive | Wickremesinghe *not said here* | Sri's economy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | present · perfect | Sri's economy | slight improvement |  |  |  | since *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent improvement=Recipient |

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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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