--- title: Local authorities were originally based on feudal counties named kor… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics description: Local authorities were originally based on feudal counties named korale and rata, and were formerly known as "D.R.O. divisions" after the divisional revenue officer. Who acts: feudal counties. 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/326/) [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/) / 326 # Sri Lanka, sentence 326 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. Local authorities were originally based on feudal counties named korale and rata, and were formerly known as "D.R.O. divisions" after the divisional revenue officer. **Who acts:** feudal counties · **What happens:** base, name, know · **To what, where:** Local authorities, feudal counties, korale 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 (feudal counties), 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:326 # text = Local authorities were originally based on feudal counties named korale and rata, and were formerly known as "D.R.O. divisions" after the divisional revenue officer. 1 Local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 authorities authority NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 originally originally ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 based base VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 feudal feudal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 counties county NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 korale korale NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 rata rata NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 16 formerly formerly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 D.R.O D.R.O PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 22 divisions division NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 24 after after ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 divisional divisional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 revenue revenue NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 officer officer NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **base** | past · passive | | Local authorities | | feudal counties | | originally *property* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on county=Source | | 2 | **name** | participle | feudal counties *not said here* | korale and rata | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **know** | past · passive | | | | | after the divisional revenue officer | as D.R.O; formerly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as d.r.o=Attribute | 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 325](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/325/) - next →: [sentence 327](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/327/) - ↑ back to [Sri Lanka](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/)