--- title: President Mahinda Rajapaksa lost the 2015 presidential elections, en… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics description: President Mahinda Rajapaksa lost the 2015 presidential elections, ending his ten-year presidency. Who acts: Mahinda. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/302/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Sri Lanka](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/) / 302 # Sri Lanka, sentence 302 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. President Mahinda Rajapaksa lost the 2015 presidential elections, ending his ten-year presidency. **Who acts:** Mahinda · **What happens:** lose, end · **To what, where:** 2015 presidential elections, year presidency 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 (Mahinda), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:302 # text = President Mahinda Rajapaksa lost the 2015 presidential elections, ending his ten-year presidency. 1 President President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Mahinda Mahinda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Rajapaksa Rajapaksa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 2015 2015 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 presidential presidential ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 ending end VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 12 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 presidency presidency NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | past | Mahinda President | the 2015 presidential elections | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality | | 2 | **end** | gerund | Mahinda President *not said here* | Mahinda's year presidency | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality presidency=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 301](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/301/) - next →: [sentence 303](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/303/) - ↑ back to [Sri Lanka](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/)