Colombo, sentence 36
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The Legislative Council of Ceylon constituted the Colombo Municipal Council in 1865 and the Council met for the first time on 16 January 1866.
Who acts: Legislative Council, Council · What happens: constitute, meet · To what, where: Colombo Municipal Council, 1865, 16
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 (Legislative Council, Council), 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 Council | det |
| 2 | Legislative | legislative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Council | amod |
| 3 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 constituted | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Ceylon | case |
| 5 | Ceylon | Ceylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Council | nmod |
| 6 | constituted | constitute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Council | det |
| 8 | Colombo | Colombo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Council | compound |
| 9 | Municipal | Municipal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Council | compound |
| 10 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 constituted | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1865 | case |
| 12 | 1865 | 1865 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 constituted | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 met | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Council | det |
| 15 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 met | nsubj |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 constituted | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 16 | case |
| 22 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 met | obl |
| 23 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 16 | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | 1866 | 1866 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 16 | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 constituted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | constitute | past | the Legislative Council of Ceylon | the Colombo Municipal Council | 1865 | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme council=Pivot | |||
| 2 | meet | past | the Council | 16 January 1866 | time | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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