Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, sentence 97
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.
Edward Walter Perera (1875–1953), a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) barrister, politician and freedom fighter.
To what, where: Edward Walter
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edward | Edward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Walter | compound |
| 2 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Perera | Perera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Walter | flat |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 1875 | punct |
| 5 | 1875 | 1875 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Walter | appos |
| 6 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 7 1953 | case |
| 7 | 1953 | 1953 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 1875 | nmod |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 1875 | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 barrister | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 barrister | det |
| 11 | Ceylonese | Ceylonese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 barrister | compound |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 Lankan | punct |
| 13 | Sri | Sri | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Lankan | amod |
| 14 | Lankan | Lankan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ceylonese | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 Lankan | punct |
| 16 | barrister | barrister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Walter | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 politician | punct |
| 18 | politician | politician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 barrister | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fighter | cc |
| 20 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fighter | compound |
| 21 | fighter | fighter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 politician | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Walter | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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