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title: A2 highway connects Colombo with Galle and Matara — Colombo · tree and pragmatics
description: A2 highway connects Colombo with Galle and Matara Who acts: A2 highway. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Colombo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Colombo, sentence 153

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From Wikipedia, [«Colombo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombo), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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A2 highway connects Colombo with Galle and Matara

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**Who acts:** A2 highway · **What happens:** connect · **To what, where:** Colombo

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Colombo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (A2 highway), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Colombo:153
# text = A2 highway connects Colombo with Galle and Matara
1	A2	a2	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	connects	connect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Colombo	Colombo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Galle	Galle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Matara	Matara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | present | A2 highway | Colombo |  |  |  | with Galle and Matara | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent colombo=Patient with galle=Co-Patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Colombo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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