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title: The Legislative Council of Ceylon constituted the Colombo Municipal… — Colombo · tree and pragmatics
description: The Legislative Council of Ceylon constituted the Colombo Municipal Council in 1865 and the Council met for the first time on 16 January 1866. Who acts: Legislative Council, Council. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Colombo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Colombo, sentence 36

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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 Legislative Council of Ceylon constituted the Colombo Municipal Council in 1865 and the Council met for the first time on 16 January 1866.

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**Who acts:** Legislative Council, Council · **What happens:** constitute, meet · **To what, where:** Colombo Municipal Council, 1865, 16

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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 (Legislative Council, Council), 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:36
# text = The Legislative Council of Ceylon constituted the Colombo Municipal Council in 1865 and the Council met for the first time on 16 January 1866.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ceylon	Ceylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	constituted	constitute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Colombo	Colombo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	Municipal	Municipal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1865	1865	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
23	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	1866	1866	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **constitute** | past | the Legislative Council of Ceylon | the Colombo Municipal Council |  | 1865 |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme council=Pivot |
| 2 | **meet** | past | the Council |  |  | 16  January  1866 | time |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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