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title: The buildings were built on reclaimed land, after a massive lake was… — Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte · tree and pragmatics
description: The buildings were built on reclaimed land, after a massive lake was formed by dredging the marshlands around the Diyawanna Oya. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, sentence 40

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From Wikipedia, [«Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Jayawardenepura_Kotte), 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 buildings were built on reclaimed land, after a massive lake was formed by dredging the marshlands around the Diyawanna Oya.

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**What happens:** build, reclaim, form, dredge · **To what, where:** buildings, reclaimed land, massive lake, marshlands, Diyawanna Oya

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Sri_Jayawardenepura_Kotte:40
# text = The buildings were built on reclaimed land, after a massive lake was formed by dredging the marshlands around the Diyawanna Oya.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	reclaimed	reclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	dredging	dredge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	marshlands	marshland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Diyawanna	Diyawanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Oya	Oya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive |  | the buildings |  | reclaimed land |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on land=Source |
| 2 | **reclaim** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **form** | past · passive |  | a massive lake |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **dredge** | gerund |  | the marshlands |  | the Diyawanna Oya |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent marshland=Location |

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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, «Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte», 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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