Colombo, sentence 79
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.
She is the second woman to hold the position, after her predecessor Rosy Senanayake (2018–2023), and leads Colombo under the NPP-JVP alliance, marking the city's first left-wing governance since N.M.
Who acts: Vraîe · What happens: be, hold, lead, mark · To what, where: second woman, position, Colombo, JVP alliance, first wing governance
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 (Vraîe), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 woman | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 woman | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hold | mark |
| 7 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 woman | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 position | det |
| 9 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hold | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 predecessor | punct |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 predecessor | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 predecessor | nmod:poss |
| 13 | predecessor | predecessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hold | obj |
| 14 | Rosy | Rosy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 predecessor | appos |
| 15 | Senanayake | Senanayake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Rosy | flat |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 2018 | punct |
| 17 | 2018 | 2018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 Rosy | appos |
| 18 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 19 2023 | case |
| 19 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 2018 | nmod |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 2018 | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 leads | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 leads | cc |
| 23 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 woman | conj |
| 24 | Colombo | Colombo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 leads | obj |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 30 alliance | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 alliance | det |
| 27 | NPP | NPP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 JVP | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 NPP | punct |
| 29 | JVP | JVP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 alliance | compound |
| 30 | alliance | alliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leads | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 marking | punct |
| 32 | marking | mark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 leads | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 city | det |
| 34 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 governance | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 city | case |
| 36 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 40 governance | amod |
| 37 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 wing | amod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 left | punct |
| 39 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 governance | compound |
| 40 | governance | governance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 marking | obj |
| 41 | since | since | ADP | _ | 42 N.M | case |
| 42 | N.M | N.M | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 marking | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Vraîe | the second woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | to-infinitive | the position | Vraîe's predecessor obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme predecessor=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | lead | present | Vraîe not said here | Colombo | the JVP alliance | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent colombo=Theme under alliance=Destination | |||
| 4 | mark | gerund | Vraîe not said here | the city's first wing governance | since N.M | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent governance=Destination |
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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