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title: Following a 17-year-long campaign, Vijayabahu I successfully drove t… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: Following a 17-year-long campaign, Vijayabahu I successfully drove the Chola out of Sri Lanka in 1070, reuniting the country for the first time in over a century. Who acts: Vijayabahu. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 77

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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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Following a 17-year-long campaign, Vijayabahu I successfully drove the Chola out of Sri Lanka in 1070, reuniting the country for the first time in over a century.

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**Who acts:** Vijayabahu · **What happens:** follow, drive, reunite · **To what, where:** Chola, Sri, 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 (Vijayabahu), 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:77
# text = Following a 17-year-long campaign, Vijayabahu I successfully drove the Chola out of Sri Lanka in 1070, reuniting the country for the first time in over a century.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
3	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	Vijayabahu	Vijayabahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	flat	_	_
12	successfully	successfully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Chola	Chola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1070	1070	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	reuniting	reunite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drive** | past | Vijayabahu | the Chola |  | Sri |  | follow a long campaign; in 1070; successfully *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent chola=Theme out sri=Destination in 1070=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **reunite** | gerund | Vijayabahu *not said here* | the country |  |  | century; time |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Co-Agent |

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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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