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title: The Colombo Metropolitan (CM) area is the most important industrial,… — Colombo · tree and pragmatics
description: The Colombo Metropolitan (CM) area is the most important industrial, commercial and administrative centre in Sri Lanka. Who acts: Metropolitan CM area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Colombo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Colombo, sentence 99

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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 Colombo Metropolitan (CM) area is the most important industrial, commercial and administrative centre in Sri Lanka.

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**Who acts:** Metropolitan CM area · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** important industrial centre, Sri

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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 (Metropolitan CM area), 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:99
# text = The Colombo Metropolitan (CM) area is the most important industrial, commercial and administrative centre in Sri Lanka.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Colombo	Colombo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Metropolitan	Metropolitan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	CM	cm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
12	industrial	industrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
17	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Metropolitan CM area | the important industrial centre |  | Sri |  |  | 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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