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title: The council was held in response to a year in which the harvests in… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: The council was held in response to a year in which the harvests in Sri Lanka were particularly poor and many Buddhist monks subsequently died of starvation. Who acts: harvests, many Buddhist monks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 66

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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 council was held in response to a year in which the harvests in Sri Lanka were particularly poor and many Buddhist monks subsequently died of starvation.

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**Who acts:** harvests, many Buddhist monks · **What happens:** hold, be, die · **To what, where:** council, response

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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 (harvests, many Buddhist monks), 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:66
# text = The council was held in response to a year in which the harvests in Sri Lanka were particularly poor and many Buddhist monks subsequently died of starvation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	harvests	harvest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	starvation	starvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | the council |  | response to a year |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in response=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | the harvests in Sri |  |  |  | in a year | particularly, poor *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | past | many Buddhist monks |  |  |  |  | of starvation; subsequently *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of starvation=Causer |

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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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