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title: Colonial buildings influenced by the Portuguese, Dutch and British e… — Colombo · tree and pragmatics
description: Colonial buildings influenced by the Portuguese, Dutch and British exist alongside structures built in Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Indian and Contemporary architectural styles. Who acts: Colonial buildings. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Colombo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Colombo, sentence 187

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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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Colonial buildings influenced by the Portuguese, Dutch and British exist alongside structures built in Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Indian and Contemporary architectural styles.

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**Who acts:** Colonial buildings · **What happens:** influence, exist, build · **To what, where:** Colonial buildings, Indian architectural styles, structures

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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 (Colonial buildings), 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:187
# text = Colonial buildings influenced by the Portuguese, Dutch and British exist alongside structures built in Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Indian and Contemporary architectural styles.
1	Colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	influenced	influence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	structures	structure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Buddhist	Buddhist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Hindu	Hindu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	architectural	architectural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	styles	style	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **influence** | participle |  | Colonial buildings *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Portuguese | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **exist** | present | Colonial buildings | Indian architectural styles |  |  |  | alongside structures | tree rules |
| 3 | **build** | participle |  | structures *not said here* |  |  |  | in Buddhist and Hindu | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in buddhist=Attribute |

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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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