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title: The secular schools Mahanama College (1954), D. S. Senanayake Colleg… — Colombo · tree and pragmatics
description: The secular schools Mahanama College (1954), D. S. Senanayake College (1967), and Sirimavo Bandaranaike Vidyalaya (1973), Thurstan College (1950) and Isipathana College (1952) have been established in the post independence era. Who acts: Mahanama. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Colombo» with its depende
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# Colombo, sentence 178

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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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The secular schools Mahanama College (1954), D. S. Senanayake College (1967), and Sirimavo Bandaranaike Vidyalaya (1973), Thurstan College (1950) and Isipathana College (1952) have been established in the post independence era.

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**Who acts:** Mahanama · **What happens:** establish · **To what, where:** Sirimavo, independence era, secular schools

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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 (Mahanama), 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:178
# text = The secular schools Mahanama College (1954), D. S. Senanayake College (1967), and Sirimavo Bandaranaike Vidyalaya (1973), Thurstan College (1950) and Isipathana College (1952) have been established in the post independence era.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	secular	secular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	Mahanama	Mahanama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	College	College	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	1954	1954	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	D.	D.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	Senanayake	Senanayake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	College	College	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	1967	1967	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
19	Sirimavo	Sirimavo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	Bandaranaike	Bandaranaike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	Vidyalaya	Vidyalaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Thurstan	Thurstan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
27	College	College	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	1950	1950	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Isipathana	Isipathana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
33	College	College	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	1952	1952	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
37	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | present · perfect · passive | Mahanama and D. S. *not said here* | Sirimavo and Thurstan and Isipathana |  | the independence era |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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