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title: It is probable that many of the scriptures from Nalanda are preserve… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: It is probable that many of the scriptures from Nalanda are preserved in Sri Lanka's many monasteries and that the written form of the Tripiṭaka, including Sinhalese Buddhist literature, were part of the University of Nalanda. Who acts: mission, written form. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» wi
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 56

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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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It is probable that many of the scriptures from Nalanda are preserved in Sri Lanka's many monasteries and that the written form of the Tripiṭaka, including Sinhalese Buddhist literature, were part of the University of Nalanda.

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**Who acts:** mission, written form · **What happens:** be, preserve, write, form · **To what, where:** many, many monasteries, part, Tripiṭaka

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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 (mission, written form), 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:56
# text = It is probable that many of the scriptures from Nalanda are preserved in Sri Lanka's many monasteries and that the written form of the Tripiṭaka, including Sinhalese Buddhist literature, were part of the University of Nalanda.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	scriptures	scripture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Nalanda	Nalanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	monasteries	monastery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Tripiṭaka	Tripiṭaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	including	including	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	Sinhalese	Sinhalese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Nalanda	Nalanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | mission |  |  |  |  | probable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **preserve** | present · passive |  | many of the scriptures from Nalanda |  | Sri's many monasteries and part |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the written form of the Tripiṭaka | part |  |  |  | of the University of Nalanda | tree rules |
| 5 | **form** |  |  | the Tripiṭaka |  |  |  |  | nom form «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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