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title: The next invasion came immediately in 205 BCE by a Chola named Elara… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: The next invasion came immediately in 205 BCE by a Chola named Elara, who overthrew Asela and ruled the country for 44 years. Who acts: next invasion, Elara. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 61

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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 next invasion came immediately in 205 BCE by a Chola named Elara, who overthrew Asela and ruled the country for 44 years.

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**Who acts:** next invasion, Elara · **What happens:** come, name, overthrow, rule · **To what, where:** 205, Chola, Asela, country

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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 (next invasion, Elara), 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:61
# text = The next invasion came immediately in 205 BCE by a Chola named Elara, who overthrew Asela and ruled the country for 44 years.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	205	205	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
8	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Chola	Chola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
13	Elara	Elara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	overthrew	overthrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	Asela	Asela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the next invasion |  |  | 205  BCE |  | immediately *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 205=Location |
| 2 | **name** | participle · passive |  | Chola |  |  |  | Elara *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **overthrow** | past | Elara | Asela |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rule** | past | Elara *not said here* | the country |  |  | year |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=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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