Colombo, sentence 52
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.
Despite the official capital of Sri Lanka moving to the adjacent Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte, most countries still maintain their diplomatic missions in Colombo.
Who acts: official capital, most countries · What happens: move, maintain · To what, where: diplomatic missions, Colombo
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 (official capital, most countries), 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 | Despite | despite | ADP | _ | 4 capital | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 capital | det |
| 3 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 capital | amod |
| 4 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 maintain | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Sri | case |
| 6 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 capital | nmod |
| 7 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sri | flat |
| 8 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 capital | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Sri | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sri | det |
| 11 | adjacent | adjacent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Sri | amod |
| 12 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 moving | obl |
| 13 | Jayawardanapura | Jayawardanapura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Sri | flat |
| 14 | Kotte | Kotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Sri | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 capital | punct |
| 16 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 countries | amod |
| 17 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 maintain | nsubj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 maintain | advmod |
| 19 | maintain | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 missions | nmod:poss |
| 21 | diplomatic | diplomatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 missions | amod |
| 22 | missions | mission | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 maintain | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Colombo | case |
| 24 | Colombo | Colombo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 maintain | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 maintain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | the official capital of Sri not said here | to the adjacent Sri result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sri=Result | ||||
| 2 | maintain | present | most countries | island's diplomatic missions | Colombo | still | despite the official capital of Sri | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent mission=Theme |
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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