--- title: After her visit, she said: "The war may have ended [in Sri Lanka], b… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics description: After her visit, she said: "The war may have ended [in Sri Lanka], but in the meantime, democracy has been undermined and the rule of law eroded." Who acts: Navanethem, war, rule, law. 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After her visit, she said: "The war may have ended \[in Sri Lanka\], but in the meantime, democracy has been undermined and the rule of law eroded." **Who acts:** Navanethem, war, rule, law · **What happens:** say, end, undermine, erode, visit, rule · **To what, where:** Sri, democracy, meantime · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Navanethem, war, rule, law), 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:367 # text = After her visit, she said: "The war may have ended [in Sri Lanka], but in the meantime, democracy has been undermined and the rule of law eroded." 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux _ _ 13 ended end VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 ccomp _ _ 14 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Sri Sri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 Lanka Lanka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 democracy democracy NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 undermined undermine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 eroded erode VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Navanethem | | | | after Navanethem's visit | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **end** *in a quote* | may · perfect | the war | | | Sri | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **undermine** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | democracy | | the meantime | | | tree rules | | 4 | **erode** *in a quote* | past | the rule of law | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **visit** | | Navanethem | | | | | | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **rule** *in a quote* | | law | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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 366](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/366/) - next →: [sentence 368](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/368/) - ↑ back to [Sri Lanka](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/)