Colombo, sentence 187
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.
Colonial buildings influenced by the Portuguese, Dutch and British exist alongside structures built in Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Indian and Contemporary architectural styles.
Who acts: Colonial buildings · What happens: influence, exist, build · To what, where: Colonial buildings, Indian architectural styles, structures
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 (Colonial buildings), 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 | Colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 buildings | amod |
| 2 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 exist | nsubj |
| 3 | influenced | influence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 buildings | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Portuguese | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Portuguese | det |
| 6 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 influenced | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dutch | punct |
| 8 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Portuguese | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 British | cc |
| 10 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Portuguese | conj |
| 11 | exist | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | alongside | alongside | ADP | _ | 13 structures | case |
| 13 | structures | structure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 exist | obl |
| 14 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 structures | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Buddhist | case |
| 16 | Buddhist | Buddhist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 built | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Hindu | punct |
| 18 | Hindu | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Buddhist | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Islamic | punct |
| 20 | Islamic | Islamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Buddhist | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Indian | punct |
| 22 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 styles | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Contemporary | cc |
| 24 | Contemporary | contemporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Indian | conj |
| 25 | architectural | architectural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 styles | amod |
| 26 | styles | style | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 exist | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 exist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | influence | participle | Colonial buildings not said here | by the Portuguese | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | exist | present | Colonial buildings | Indian architectural styles | alongside structures | tree rules | |||
| 3 | build | participle | structures not said here | in Buddhist and Hindu | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in buddhist=Attribute |
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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