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title: In 1977, the free market economy was introduced to the country, inco… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1977, the free market economy was introduced to the country, incorporating privatisation, deregulation, and the promotion of private enterprise. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 378

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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 1977, the free market economy was introduced to the country, incorporating privatisation, deregulation, and the promotion of private enterprise.

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**What happens:** introduce, incorporate, promote · **To what, where:** free market economy, 1977, privatisation, private enterprise

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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: 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:378
# text = In 1977, the free market economy was introduced to the country, incorporating privatisation, deregulation, and the promotion of private enterprise.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1977	1977	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	incorporating	incorporate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	privatisation	privatisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	deregulation	deregulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	promotion	promotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | past · passive |  | the free market economy |  | 1977 |  | to the country; the promotion of private enterprise *obl* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to country=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **incorporate** | gerund |  | privatisation and deregulation |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent privatisation=Patient |
| 3 | **promote** |  |  | private enterprise |  |  |  |  | nom promotion «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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