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title: Parākramabāhu's reign is memorable for two major campaigns – in the… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: Parākramabāhu's reign is memorable for two major campaigns – in the south of India as part of a Pandyan war of succession, and a punitive strike against the kings of Ramanna (Burma) for various perceived insults to Sri Lanka. Who acts: reign, succession. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with it
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 84

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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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Parākramabāhu's reign is memorable for two major campaigns – in the south of India as part of a Pandyan war of succession, and a punitive strike against the kings of Ramanna (Burma) for various perceived insults to Sri Lanka.

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**Who acts:** reign, succession · **What happens:** be, perceive, war

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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 (reign, succession), 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:84
# text = Parākramabāhu's reign is memorable for two major campaigns – in the south of India as part of a Pandyan war of succession, and a punitive strike against the kings of Ramanna (Burma) for various perceived insults to Sri Lanka.
1	Parākramabāhu	Parākramabāhu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	memorable	memorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	campaigns	campaign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Pandyan	Pandyan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	succession	succession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	punitive	punitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
29	against	against	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Ramanna	Ramanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Burma	Burma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	amod	_	_
40	insults	insult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Parākramabāhu's reign |  |  |  |  | for two major campaigns; a punitive strike against the kings of Ramanna for various perceived insults to Sri *conj*; memorable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **perceive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **war** |  | succession |  |  |  |  |  | nom war «act intransitive»: of=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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