Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, sentence 42

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.

The island (off Baddegana Road, Pita Kotte) had been used as a recreation and brawling spot for Portuguese soldiers in the last days of Kotte era, alcohol being banned from the Royal City.

What happens: use, brawl, ban · To what, where: island, spot, alcohol, Royal City

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 island	det
2	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 used	nsubj:pass
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 Road	punct
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 Road	case
5	Baddegana	Baddegana	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Road	compound
6	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 island	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Kotte	punct
8	Pita	Pita	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Kotte	compound
9	Kotte	Kotte	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Road	conj
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 Road	punct
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 used	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 used	aux:pass
13	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 recreation	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 recreation	det
16	recreation	recreation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 used	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 brawling	cc
18	brawling	brawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 used	conj
19	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brawling	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 soldiers	case
21	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 soldiers	amod
22	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 brawling	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 days	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 days	det
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 days	amod
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 brawling	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 era	case
28	Kotte	Kotte	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 era	compound
29	era	era	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 days	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 banned	punct
31	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 banned	nsubj:pass
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 banned	aux:pass
33	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 used	conj
34	from	from	ADP	_	37 City	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 City	det
36	Royal	Royal	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 City	compound
37	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 banned	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · perfect · passive	the island			as a recreation	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as recreation=Attribute
2	brawl	gerund	spot		day	for Portuguese soldiers	tree rules
3	ban	gerund · passive	alcohol	the Royal City			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from city=Eventuality

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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🌲 Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, sentence 42