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title: Sri Lanka contains four terrestrial ecoregions: Sri Lanka lowland ra… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: Sri Lanka contains four terrestrial ecoregions: Sri Lanka lowland rain forests, Sri Lanka montane rain forests, Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests, and Deccan thorn scrub forests. Who acts: Sri, dry zone. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 240

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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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Sri Lanka contains four terrestrial ecoregions: Sri Lanka lowland rain forests, Sri Lanka montane rain forests, Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests, and Deccan thorn scrub forests.

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**Who acts:** Sri, dry zone · **What happens:** contain, forest · **To what, where:** four terrestrial ecoregions, Sri

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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 (Sri, dry zone), 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:240
# text = Sri Lanka contains four terrestrial ecoregions: Sri Lanka lowland rain forests, Sri Lanka montane rain forests, Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests, and Deccan thorn scrub forests.
1	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	terrestrial	terrestrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ecoregions	ecoregion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	lowland	lowland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	montane	montane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
21	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	evergreen	evergreen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	Deccan	deccan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	scrub	scrub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | Sri | four terrestrial ecoregions |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ecoregion=Theme |
| 2 | **forest** |  | Sri | Sri |  |  |  | montane rain forests *conj*; Deccan scrub forests *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **forest** |  | dry zone | Sri *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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