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title: His most famous construction is the Parakrama Samudra, the largest i… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: His most famous construction is the Parakrama Samudra, the largest irrigation project of mediaeval Sri Lanka. Who acts: famous construction, Sri. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 83

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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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His most famous construction is the Parakrama Samudra, the largest irrigation project of mediaeval Sri Lanka.

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**Who acts:** famous construction, Sri · **What happens:** be, construct, project · **To what, where:** Parakrama Samudra, Sri

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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 (famous construction, Sri), 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:83
# text = His most famous construction is the Parakrama Samudra, the largest irrigation project of mediaeval Sri Lanka.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Parakrama	Parakrama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Samudra	Samudra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
12	irrigation	irrigation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	mediaeval	mediaeval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Sri's famous construction | the Parakrama Samudra |  |  |  | the largest irrigation project of Sri  mediaeval *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **construct** |  | Sri |  |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **project** |  |  | Sri  mediaeval |  |  |  |  | nom project «act 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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