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title: With more than 100,000 km of paved roads, it has one of the highest… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: With more than 100,000 km of paved roads, it has one of the highest road densities in the world (1.5 km of paved roads per every 1 km2 of land). Who acts: Road. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 410

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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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With more than 100,000 km of paved roads, it has one of the highest road densities in the world (1.5 km of paved roads per every 1 km2 of land).

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**Who acts:** Road · **What happens:** pave, have · **To what, where:** one

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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 (Road), 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:410
# text = With more than 100,000 km of paved roads, it has one of the highest road densities in the world (1.5 km of paved roads per every 1 km2 of land).
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	paved	pave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
16	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	densities	density	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	1.5	1.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	23	nummod	_	_
23	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	paved	pave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	per	per	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
29	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	compound	_	_
30	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | Road | one of the highest road densities in the world |  |  |  | with 100,000 km of paved roads | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 3 | **pave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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