Colombo, sentence 82
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.
In the case of water, electricity and telephone utility services, the council liaises with the National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB), the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and telephone service providers operating in the country respectively.
Who acts: council, service providers · What happens: liaise, telephone, operate · To what, where: case, service providers, country
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 (council, service providers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 case | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 case | det |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 liaises | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 case | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 electricity | punct |
| 7 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 water | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 services | cc |
| 9 | telephone | telephone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 services | compound |
| 10 | utility | utility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 services | compound |
| 11 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 water | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 case | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 council | det |
| 14 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 liaises | nsubj |
| 15 | liaises | liaise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Supply | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Supply | det |
| 18 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Supply | amod |
| 19 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Supply | compound |
| 20 | Supply | Supply | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 liaises | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Board | cc |
| 22 | Drainage | Drainage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Board | compound |
| 23 | Board | Board | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Supply | conj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 NWSDB | punct |
| 25 | NWSDB | NWSDB | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Board | appos |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 NWSDB | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Board | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Board | det |
| 29 | Ceylon | Ceylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Board | compound |
| 30 | Electricity | Electricity | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Board | compound |
| 31 | Board | Board | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Supply | conj |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 CEB | punct |
| 33 | CEB | CEB | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Board | appos |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 CEB | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 telephone | cc |
| 36 | telephone | telephone | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 liaises | conj |
| 37 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 providers | compound |
| 38 | providers | provider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 telephone | obj |
| 39 | operating | operate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 providers | acl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 country | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 country | det |
| 42 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 operating | obl |
| 43 | respectively | respectively | ADV | _ | 39 operating | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 liaises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | liaise | present | the council | the case of water and electricity and telephone utility services | with the National Water Supply and Drainage Board and the Ceylon Electricity Board | tree rules | |||
| 2 | telephone speech: other | infinitive | the council not said here | service providers | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent provider=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | operate | gerund | service providers not said here | the country | respectively property | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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