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title: Founded in 1981, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress is the largest Muslim… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: Founded in 1981, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress is the largest Muslim political party in Sri Lanka. Who acts: Sri Muslim Congress. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 301

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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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Founded in 1981, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress is the largest Muslim political party in Sri Lanka.

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**Who acts:** Sri Muslim Congress · **What happens:** found, be · **To what, where:** 1981, largest Muslim political party, 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 Muslim Congress), 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:301
# text = Founded in 1981, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress is the largest Muslim political party in Sri Lanka.
1	Founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	1981	1981	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
13	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | participle |  |  |  | 1981 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Sri Muslim Congress | the largest Muslim political party |  | Sri |  |  | 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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