Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, sentence 40
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The buildings were built on reclaimed land, after a massive lake was formed by dredging the marshlands around the Diyawanna Oya.
What happens: build, reclaim, form, dredge · To what, where: buildings, reclaimed land, massive lake, marshlands, Diyawanna Oya
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 buildings | det |
| 2 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux:pass |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 6 | reclaimed | reclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 land | amod |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 formed | punct |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 formed | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lake | det |
| 11 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lake | amod |
| 12 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 formed | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 formed | aux:pass |
| 14 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 built | conj |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 dredging | mark |
| 16 | dredging | dredge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 formed | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 marshlands | det |
| 18 | marshlands | marshland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dredging | obj |
| 19 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 Oya | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Oya | det |
| 21 | Diyawanna | Diyawanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Oya | compound |
| 22 | Oya | Oya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 marshlands | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | the buildings | reclaimed land | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on land=Source | ||||
| 2 | reclaim | participle | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | form | past · passive | a massive lake | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dredge | gerund | the marshlands | the Diyawanna Oya | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent marshland=Location |
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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