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title: G. G. Ponnambalam, the Tamil nationalist counterpart of S. W. R. D.… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: G. G. Ponnambalam, the Tamil nationalist counterpart of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, founded the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC) in 1944. Who acts: G.. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 293

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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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G. G. Ponnambalam, the Tamil nationalist counterpart of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, founded the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC) in 1944.

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**Who acts:** G. · **What happens:** found · **To what, where:** Ceylon Tamil Congress, 1944

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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 (G.), 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:293
# text = G. G. Ponnambalam, the Tamil nationalist counterpart of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, founded the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC) in 1944.
1	G.	G.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
2	G.	G.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Ponnambalam	Ponnambalam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Tamil	Tamil	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	nationalist	nationalist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	counterpart	counterpart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	R.	R.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	D.	D.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	Bandaranaike	Bandaranaike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
16	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
19	Ceylon	Ceylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	Tamil	Tamil	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	ACTC	ACTC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1944	1944	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past | G.  the Tamil nationalist counterpart of S. | the Ceylon Tamil Congress |  | 1944 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent congress=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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