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title: Despite the official capital of Sri Lanka moving to the adjacent Sri… — Colombo · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite the official capital of Sri Lanka moving to the adjacent Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte, most countries still maintain their diplomatic missions in Colombo. Who acts: official capital, most countries. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Colombo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Colombo, sentence 52

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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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Despite the official capital of Sri Lanka moving to the adjacent Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte, most countries still maintain their diplomatic missions in Colombo.

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**Who acts:** official capital, most countries · **What happens:** move, maintain · **To what, where:** diplomatic missions, 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 (official capital, most countries), 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:52
# text = Despite the official capital of Sri Lanka moving to the adjacent Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte, most countries still maintain their diplomatic missions in Colombo.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	adjacent	adjacent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	Jayawardanapura	Jayawardanapura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	Kotte	Kotte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	maintain	maintain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	missions	mission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Colombo	Colombo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | gerund | the official capital of Sri *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the adjacent Sri *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sri=Result |
| 2 | **maintain** | present | most countries | island's diplomatic missions |  | Colombo | still | despite the official capital of Sri | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent mission=Theme |

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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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