Colombo, sentence 140
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.
Up until the 1970s, the city had tram services, which were discontinued.
Who acts: city · What happens: have, discontinue · To what, where: tram services
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 (city), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 8 had | advmod |
| 2 | until | until | ADP | _ | 4 1970s | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 1970s | det |
| 4 | 1970s | 1970s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 1 Up | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Up | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | tram | tram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 services | compound |
| 10 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 discontinued | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 discontinued | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 discontinued | aux:pass |
| 14 | discontinued | discontinue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 services | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the city | tram services | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Patient | ||||
| 2 | discontinue | past · passive | tram services | vn stop-55.4 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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