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title: Statistics of Sri Lanka's forest cover show rapid deforestation from… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: Statistics of Sri Lanka's forest cover show rapid deforestation from 1956 to 2010. Who acts: Statistics. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 256

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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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Statistics of Sri Lanka's forest cover show rapid deforestation from 1956 to 2010.

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**Who acts:** Statistics · **What happens:** show · **To what, where:** rapid deforestation, 1956

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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 (Statistics), 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:256
# text = Statistics of Sri Lanka's forest cover show rapid deforestation from 1956 to 2010.
1	Statistics	statistic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	deforestation	deforestation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1956	1956	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Statistics of forest cover | rapid deforestation |  | 1956 to 2010 |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent deforestation=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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