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title: After 2018, two major political parties split from these two parties… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: After 2018, two major political parties split from these two parties: The Samagi Jana Balawegaya split from the UNP, and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna split from the UPFA. Who acts: two major political parties, Samagi Jana Balawegaya, Sri Peramuna. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its de
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 283

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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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After 2018, two major political parties split from these two parties: The Samagi Jana Balawegaya split from the UNP, and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna split from the UPFA.

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**Who acts:** two major political parties, Samagi Jana Balawegaya, Sri Peramuna · **What happens:** split

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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 (two major political parties, Samagi Jana Balawegaya, Sri Peramuna), 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:283
# text = After 2018, two major political parties split from these two parties: The Samagi Jana Balawegaya split from the UNP, and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna split from the UPFA.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Samagi	Samagi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	Jana	Jana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Balawegaya	Balawegaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	UNP	unp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
26	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	Podujana	Podujana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
28	Peramuna	Peramuna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	UPFA	UPFA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **split** | past | two major political parties |  |  |  | after 2018 | from this two parties | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from party=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **split** | past | the Samagi Jana Balawegaya |  |  |  |  | from the UNP | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from unp=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **split** | past | the Sri Peramuna |  |  |  |  | from the UPFA | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from upfa=Co-Patient |

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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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