--- title: She is the second woman to hold the position, after her predecessor… — Colombo · tree and pragmatics description: She is the second woman to hold the position, after her predecessor Rosy Senanayake (2018–2023), and leads Colombo under the NPP-JVP alliance, marking the city's first left-wing governance since N.M. Who acts: Vraîe. 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She is the second woman to hold the position, after her predecessor Rosy Senanayake (2018–2023), and leads Colombo under the NPP-JVP alliance, marking the city's first left-wing governance since N.M. **Who acts:** Vraîe · **What happens:** be, hold, lead, mark · **To what, where:** second woman, position, Colombo, JVP alliance, first wing governance 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 (Vraîe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:79 # text = She is the second woman to hold the position, after her predecessor Rosy Senanayake (2018–2023), and leads Colombo under the NPP-JVP alliance, marking the city's first left-wing governance since N.M. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 5 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 position position NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 predecessor predecessor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 14 Rosy Rosy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 15 Senanayake Senanayake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 2018 2018 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 18 – – SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 19 case _ SpaceAfter=No 19 2023 2023 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 leads lead VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 24 Colombo Colombo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 under under ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 27 NPP NPP PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 JVP JVP PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 alliance alliance NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 marking mark VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 40 amod _ _ 37 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 governance governance NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 41 since since ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 N.M N.M PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Vraîe | the second woman | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive | | the position | | | | Vraîe's predecessor *obj* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme predecessor=Eventuality | | 3 | **lead** | present | Vraîe *not said here* | Colombo | | the JVP alliance | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent colombo=Theme under alliance=Destination | | 4 | **mark** | gerund | Vraîe *not said here* | the city's first wing governance | | | since N.M | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent governance=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Colombo/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Colombo/80/) - ↑ back to [Colombo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Colombo/)