--- title: In September 2021 the government declared an economic emergency, as… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics description: In September 2021 the government declared an economic emergency, as the situation was further aggravated by falling national currency exchange rate, inflation rising as a result of high food prices, and pandemic restrictions in tourism which further decreased country's income. 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In September 2021 the government declared an economic emergency, as the situation was further aggravated by falling national currency exchange rate, inflation rising as a result of high food prices, and pandemic restrictions in tourism which further decreased country's income. **Who acts:** government, inflation, tourism · **What happens:** declare, aggravate, fall, rise, decrease, result · **To what, where:** economic emergency, situation, national exchange rate, income, high food prices 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 (government, inflation, tourism), 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:420 # text = In September 2021 the government declared an economic emergency, as the situation was further aggravated by falling national currency exchange rate, inflation rising as a result of high food prices, and pandemic restrictions in tourism which further decreased country's income. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 economic economic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 situation situation NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 15 further further ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 aggravated aggravate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 17 by by SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 19 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 currency currency NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 exchange exchange NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 rate rate NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 inflation inflation NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 rising rise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 pandemic pandemic NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 restrictions restriction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 tourism tourism NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 40 further further ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 decreased decrease VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 42 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 's 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 income income NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the government | a economic emergency | | | september | pandemic restrictions in tourism *obl* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emergency=Attribute | | 2 | **aggravate** | past · passive | | the situation | | | | further *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **fall** | gerund | | national exchange rate | | | | inflation *obl* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient rate=Result | | 4 | **rise** | gerund | inflation *not said here* | | | | | as a result of high food prices | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **decrease** | past | tourism | country's income | | | | further *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer income=Patient | | 6 | **result** | | | high food prices | | | | | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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 419](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/419/) - next →: [sentence 421](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/421/) - ↑ back to [Sri Lanka](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sri_Lanka/)