Colombo, sentence 178
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 secular schools Mahanama College (1954), D. S. Senanayake College (1967), and Sirimavo Bandaranaike Vidyalaya (1973), Thurstan College (1950) and Isipathana College (1952) have been established in the post independence era.
Who acts: Mahanama · What happens: establish · To what, where: Sirimavo, independence era, secular schools
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 (Mahanama), 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 | 3 schools | det |
| 2 | secular | secular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 schools | amod |
| 3 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | Mahanama | Mahanama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 schools | appos |
| 5 | College | College | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mahanama | flat |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 1954 | punct |
| 7 | 1954 | 1954 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Mahanama | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 1954 | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 S. | punct |
| 10 | D. | D. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 S. | compound |
| 11 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mahanama | conj |
| 12 | Senanayake | Senanayake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 S. | flat |
| 13 | College | College | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 S. | flat |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 1967 | punct |
| 15 | 1967 | 1967 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Mahanama | list |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 1967 | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 established | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 established | cc |
| 19 | Sirimavo | Sirimavo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 established | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | Bandaranaike | Bandaranaike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sirimavo | flat |
| 21 | Vidyalaya | Vidyalaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sirimavo | flat |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 1973 | punct |
| 23 | 1973 | 1973 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 Sirimavo | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 1973 | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Thurstan | punct |
| 26 | Thurstan | Thurstan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sirimavo | conj |
| 27 | College | College | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Thurstan | flat |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 1950 | punct |
| 29 | 1950 | 1950 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 Thurstan | appos |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 1950 | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Isipathana | cc |
| 32 | Isipathana | Isipathana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Thurstan | conj |
| 33 | College | College | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Isipathana | flat |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 1952 | punct |
| 35 | 1952 | 1952 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 Isipathana | appos |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 1952 | punct |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 established | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 established | aux:pass |
| 39 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Mahanama | acl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 era | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 era | det |
| 42 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 independence | compound |
| 43 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 era | compound |
| 44 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 established | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 schools | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | present · perfect · passive | Mahanama and D. S. not said here | Sirimavo and Thurstan and Isipathana | the independence era | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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