Colombo, sentence 10
From Wikipedia, «Colombo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The author of the oldest Sinhala grammar, Sidatsangarava, written in the 13th century wrote about a category of words that exclusively belonged to early Sinhala.
Who acts: author, words · What happens: write, belong · To what, where: Sidatsangarava, early Sinhala
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Colombo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (author, words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 author | det |
| 2 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 grammar | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grammar | det |
| 5 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 grammar | amod |
| 6 | Sinhala | Sinhala | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grammar | amod |
| 7 | grammar | grammar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 author | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sidatsangarava | punct |
| 9 | Sidatsangarava | Sidatsangarava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 grammar | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 written | punct |
| 11 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Sidatsangarava | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 century | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 century | det |
| 14 | 13th | 13th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 15 century | amod |
| 15 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 written | obl |
| 16 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 category | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 category | det |
| 19 | category | category | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wrote | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 words | case |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 category | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 belonged | nsubj |
| 23 | exclusively | exclusively | ADV | _ | 24 belonged | advmod |
| 24 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 words | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Sinhala | case |
| 26 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Sinhala | amod |
| 27 | Sinhala | Sinhala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 belonged | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | participle | Sidatsangarava not said here | century | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | write | past | the author of the oldest Sinhala grammar | about a category of words | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about category=Topic | ||||
| 3 | belong | past | words | early Sinhala | exclusively property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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