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title: The Tamil term Eelam (ஈழம்) was used to designate the whole island i… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tamil term Eelam (ஈழம்) was used to designate the whole island in Sangam literature. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 24

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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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The Tamil term Eelam (ஈழம்) was used to designate the whole island in Sangam literature.

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**What happens:** use, designate · **To what, where:** Tamil term, whole island, Sangam literature

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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: 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:24
# text = The Tamil term Eelam (ஈழம்) was used to designate the whole island in Sangam literature.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Tamil	Tamil	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	compound	_	_
3	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	Eelam	Eelam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ஈழம	ஈழம	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	்	்	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	designate	designate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Sangam	Sangam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | the Tamil term |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **designate** | to-infinitive |  | the whole island |  | Sangam literature |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme |

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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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