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title: A judicial service commission, composed of the chief justice and two… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: A judicial service commission, composed of the chief justice and two Supreme Court judges, appoints, transfers, and dismisses lower court judges. Who acts: judicial service commission. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 281

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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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A judicial service commission, composed of the chief justice and two Supreme Court judges, appoints, transfers, and dismisses lower court judges.

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**Who acts:** judicial service commission · **What happens:** compose, dismiss · **To what, where:** judicial service commission, lower court judges

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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 (judicial service commission), 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:281
# text = A judicial service commission, composed of the chief justice and two Supreme Court judges, appoints, transfers, and dismisses lower court judges.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	judicial	judicial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	commission	commission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	Supreme	Supreme	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	appoints	appoint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	transfers	transfer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	dismisses	dismiss	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
24	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compose** | participle |  | a judicial service commission *not said here* |  |  |  | of the chief justice and two Court judges and appoints and transfers | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dismiss** | present | a judicial service commission | lower court judges |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judge=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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