Colombo, sentence 106
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.
Pettah's roads are always packed and pavements are full of small stalls selling items from delicious sharbat to shirts.
Who acts: pavements, small stalls · What happens: be, sell · To what, where: items, shirts, delicious sharbat
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 (pavements, small stalls), 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 | Pettah | Pettah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 roads | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Pettah | case |
| 3 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 packed | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 packed | aux:pass |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 packed | advmod |
| 6 | packed | packed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 full | cc |
| 8 | pavements | pavement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 full | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 full | cop |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 packed | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 stalls | case |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stalls | amod |
| 13 | stalls | stall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 full | obl |
| 14 | selling | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stalls | acl |
| 15 | items | item | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 selling | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 sharbat | case |
| 17 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sharbat | amod |
| 18 | sharbat | sharbat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 selling | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 shirts | case |
| 20 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 selling | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 packed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | pavements | of small stalls; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sell | gerund | small stalls not said here | items | shirts | delicious sharbat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent item=Theme to shirt=Recipient |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Colombo», 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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