Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, sentence 31
From Wikipedia, «Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte», 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.
Like similar cities of that era, Sri Jayawardenepura was built with security in mind.
What happens: build · To what, where: similar cities
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 cities | case |
| 2 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cities | amod |
| 3 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 built | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 era | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 era | det |
| 6 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cities | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cities | punct |
| 8 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 built | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | Jayawardenepura | Jayawardenepura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sri | flat |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 built | aux:pass |
| 11 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 security | case |
| 13 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 built | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 mind | case |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 security | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | similar cities of that era | with security in mind; Sri nsubj:pass | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme with security=Source |
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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