Colombo, sentence 112
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 Sri Lanka Police, the main law enforcement agency of the island, liaise with the municipal council but is under the control of the Ministry of Defence of the central government.
Who acts: Sri Police · What happens: liaise, be · To what, where: control
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 (Sri Police), 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 | 4 Police | det |
| 2 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Police | compound |
| 3 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sri | flat |
| 4 | Police | Police | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 liaise | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 agency | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 agency | det |
| 7 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 agency | amod |
| 8 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enforcement | compound |
| 9 | enforcement | enforcement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 agency | compound |
| 10 | agency | agency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Police | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 island | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 island | det |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 agency | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 liaise | punct |
| 15 | liaise | liaise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 council | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 council | det |
| 18 | municipal | municipal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 council | amod |
| 19 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 liaise | obl |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 control | cc |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 control | cop |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 control | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 control | det |
| 24 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 liaise | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Ministry | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Ministry | det |
| 27 | Ministry | Ministry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 control | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Defence | case |
| 29 | Defence | Defence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Ministry | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 government | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 government | det |
| 32 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 government | amod |
| 33 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Defence | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 liaise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | liaise | infinitive | the Sri Police | with the municipal council | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Sri Police not said here | the control | of the Ministry of Defence of the central government | tree rules |
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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