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title: The island (off Baddegana Road, Pita Kotte) had been used as a recre… — Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte · tree and pragmatics
description: The island (off Baddegana Road, Pita Kotte) had been used as a recreation and brawling spot for Portuguese soldiers in the last days of Kotte era, alcohol being banned from the Royal City. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, sentence 42

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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 island (off Baddegana Road, Pita Kotte) had been used as a recreation and brawling spot for Portuguese soldiers in the last days of Kotte era, alcohol being banned from the Royal City.

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**What happens:** use, brawl, ban · **To what, where:** island, spot, alcohol, Royal City

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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:42
# text = The island (off Baddegana Road, Pita Kotte) had been used as a recreation and brawling spot for Portuguese soldiers in the last days of Kotte era, alcohol being banned from the Royal City.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Baddegana	Baddegana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Pita	Pita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Kotte	Kotte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	recreation	recreation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	brawling	brawl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
19	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Kotte	Kotte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Royal	Royal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · perfect · passive |  | the island |  |  |  | as a recreation | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as recreation=Attribute |
| 2 | **brawl** | gerund |  | spot |  |  | day | for Portuguese soldiers | tree rules |
| 3 | **ban** | gerund · passive |  | alcohol |  | the Royal City |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from city=Eventuality |

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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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