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title: In the same year, the group published Out of the Silence, which docu… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: In the same year, the group published Out of the Silence, which documents evidence of torture in Sri Lanka and demonstrates that the practice has continued long after the end of the civil war in 2009. Who acts: group, Silence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragma
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 371

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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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In the same year, the group published Out of the Silence, which documents evidence of torture in Sri Lanka and demonstrates that the practice has continued long after the end of the civil war in 2009.

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**Who acts:** group, Silence · **What happens:** publish, evidence, demonstrate, continue · **To what, where:** Silence, Sri, practice

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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 (group, Silence), 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:371
# text = In the same year, the group published Out of the Silence, which documents evidence of torture in Sri Lanka and demonstrates that the practice has continued long after the end of the civil war in 2009.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	published	publish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	documents	document	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	compound	_	_
16	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	torture	torture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	demonstrates	demonstrate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
29	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
30	after	after	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **publish** | past | the group |  |  | the Silence and documents evidence | year |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **evidence** |  | the Silence and documents evidence |  |  | Sri |  | of torture | tree rules |
| 3 | **demonstrate** | present | the group *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic |
| 4 | **continue** | present · perfect · passive |  | the practice |  |  | after the end of the civil war in 2009 | long *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |

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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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