Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, sentence 49
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.
There are 20 Members of the Municipal Council (MMCs), elected on proportional representation.
Who acts: 20 Members · What happens: be, elect · To what, where: 20 Members, proportional representation
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 (20 Members), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Members | nummod |
| 4 | Members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Council | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Council | det |
| 7 | Municipal | Municipal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Council | compound |
| 8 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Members | nmod |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 MMCs | punct |
| 10 | MMCs | MMCs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Council | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 MMCs | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 elected | punct |
| 13 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Members | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 representation | case |
| 15 | proportional | proportional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 representation | amod |
| 16 | representation | representation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 elected | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | 20 Members of the Municipal Council | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | elect | participle | 20 Members of the Municipal Council not said here | proportional representation | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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