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title: Sri Lankans have won two medals at Olympic Games: one silver, by Dun… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: Sri Lankans have won two medals at Olympic Games: one silver, by Duncan White at the 1948 London Olympics for men's 400 metres hurdles; and one silver by Susanthika Jayasinghe at the 2000 Sydney Olympics for women's 200 metres. Who acts: Sri Lankans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its de
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 557

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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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Sri Lankans have won two medals at Olympic Games: one silver, by Duncan White at the 1948 London Olympics for men's 400 metres hurdles; and one silver by Susanthika Jayasinghe at the 2000 Sydney Olympics for women's 200 metres.

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**Who acts:** Sri Lankans · **What happens:** win, hurdle · **To what, where:** two medals, Olympic Games

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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 (Sri Lankans), 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:557
# text = Sri Lankans have won two medals at Olympic Games: one silver, by Duncan White at the 1948 London Olympics for men's 400 metres hurdles; and one silver by Susanthika Jayasinghe at the 2000 Sydney Olympics for women's 200 metres.
1	Sri	Sri	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Lankans	Lankan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	medals	medal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Olympic	olympic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Games	Game	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Duncan	Duncan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	1948	1948	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Olympics	Olympic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
27	hurdles	hurdle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Susanthika	Susanthika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	Jayasinghe	Jayasinghe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
38	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Olympics	Olympic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	's	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present · perfect | Sri Lankans | two medals and one silver |  | Olympic Games |  | by Duncan White at the 1948 London Olympics; one silver by Susanthika at the 2000 Sydney Olympics for women's 200 metres *parataxis* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent medal=Theme at game=Asset |
| 2 | **hurdle** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for men's 400 metres | tree rules |

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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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