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title: The population of Colombo is a mix of numerous ethnic groups, mainly… — Colombo · tree and pragmatics
description: The population of Colombo is a mix of numerous ethnic groups, mainly Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Moor and Sri Lankan Tamils,. Who acts: population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Colombo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Colombo, sentence 71

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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 population of Colombo is a mix of numerous ethnic groups, mainly Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Moor and Sri Lankan Tamils,.

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**Who acts:** population · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mix

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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 (population), 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:71
# text = The population of Colombo is a mix of numerous ethnic groups, mainly Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Moor and Sri Lankan Tamils,.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Colombo	Colombo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	Sinhalese	Sinhalese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	Sri	Sri	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Lankan	Lankan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	Lankan	Lankan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	Tamils	Tamil	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the population of Colombo | a mix |  |  |  | of numerous ethnic groups; Sinhalese Sri Lankan Moor *appos* | tree rules |

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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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