Colombo, sentence 219
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 festivities include many events and traditions that display a great deal of Sri Lankan culture.
Who acts: festivities, many events · What happens: include, display, deal · To what, where: many events, great deal, Sri culture
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 (festivities, many events), 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 | 2 festivities | det |
| 2 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 include | nsubj |
| 3 | include | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 events | amod |
| 5 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 include | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 traditions | cc |
| 7 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 events | conj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 display | nsubj |
| 9 | display | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 events | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 deal | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deal | amod |
| 12 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 display | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 culture | case |
| 14 | Sri | Sri | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 culture | amod |
| 15 | Lankan | Lankan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Sri | flat |
| 16 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deal | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 include | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | the festivities | many events and traditions | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent event=Theme | ||||
| 2 | display | present | many events and traditions | a great deal of Sri culture | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Theme | ||||
| 3 | deal | Sri culture | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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