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title: Cannons that were once mounted on the rampart of the old fort of Col… — Colombo · tree and pragmatics
description: Cannons that were once mounted on the rampart of the old fort of Colombo were laid out for observance and prestige at the Green. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Colombo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Colombo, sentence 167

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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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Cannons that were once mounted on the rampart of the old fort of Colombo were laid out for observance and prestige at the Green.

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**What happens:** mount, lay out · **To what, where:** Cannons, rampart

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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: 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:167
# text = Cannons that were once mounted on the rampart of the old fort of Colombo were laid out for observance and prestige at the Green.
1	Cannons	cannon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rampart	rampart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Colombo	Colombo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	observance	observance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	prestige	prestige	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Green	Green	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past · passive |  | Cannons |  | the rampart of the old fort of Colombo |  | once *property* | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: that=Theme on rampart=Destination |
| 2 | **lay out** | past · passive |  | Cannons |  |  |  | for observance and prestige at the Green | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for observance=Beneficiary |

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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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