Colombo, sentence 167
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Cannons that were once mounted on the rampart of the old fort of Colombo were laid out for observance and prestige at the Green.
What happens: mount, lay out · To what, where: Cannons, rampart
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: 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 | Cannons | cannon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 mounted | obj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mounted | aux:pass |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 mounted | advmod |
| 5 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Cannons | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 rampart | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rampart | det |
| 8 | rampart | rampart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mounted | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fort | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fort | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fort | amod |
| 12 | fort | fort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rampart | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Colombo | case |
| 14 | Colombo | Colombo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fort | nmod |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 laid | aux:pass |
| 16 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 laid | compound:prt |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 observance | case |
| 19 | observance | observance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laid | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 prestige | cc |
| 21 | prestige | prestige | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 observance | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Green | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Green | det |
| 24 | Green | Green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 prestige | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past · passive | Cannons | the rampart of the old fort of Colombo | once property | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: that=Theme on rampart=Destination | |||
| 2 | lay out | past · passive | Cannons | for observance and prestige at the Green | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for observance=Beneficiary |
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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