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title: The railway network, operated by the state-run National Railway oper… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: The railway network, operated by the state-run National Railway operator Sri Lanka Railways, spans 1447 km. Who acts: railway network. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 415

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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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The railway network, operated by the state-run National Railway operator Sri Lanka Railways, spans 1447 km.

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**Who acts:** railway network · **What happens:** operate, span · **To what, where:** railway network, 1447 km

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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 (railway network), 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:415
# text = The railway network, operated by the state-run National Railway operator Sri Lanka Railways, spans 1447 km.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	operated	operate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	Railway	Railway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	operator	Operator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	Railways	Railway	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	spans	span	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	1447	1447	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **operate** | participle |  | the railway network *not said here* |  |  |  | by the state run  National Railway operator Sri | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **span** | present | the railway network | 1447 km |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme km=Co-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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