Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, sentence 45
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 process of relocating government institutions from the former capital of Colombo is still in progress.
Who acts: process · What happens: relocate, be · To what, where: government institutions, former capital, progress
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: who acts (process), 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 process | det |
| 2 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 progress | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 relocating | mark |
| 4 | relocating | relocate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 process | acl |
| 5 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 institutions | compound |
| 6 | institutions | institution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 relocating | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 capital | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 capital | det |
| 9 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 capital | amod |
| 10 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 relocating | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Colombo | case |
| 12 | Colombo | Colombo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 capital | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 progress | cop |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 progress | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 progress | case |
| 16 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 progress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relocate | gerund | the process not said here | government institutions | the former capital of Colombo | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | the process | progress | still | tree rules |
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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