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title: Edward Walter Perera (1875–1953), a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) barrister… — Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte · tree and pragmatics
description: Edward Walter Perera (1875–1953), a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) barrister, politician and freedom fighter. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, sentence 97

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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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Edward Walter Perera (1875–1953), a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) barrister, politician and freedom fighter.

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**To what, where:** Edward Walter

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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:97
# text = Edward Walter Perera (1875–1953), a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) barrister, politician and freedom fighter.
1	Edward	Edward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Perera	Perera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	1875	1875	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	1953	1953	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	Ceylonese	Ceylonese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Sri	Sri	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Lankan	Lankan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	barrister	barrister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	politician	politician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	fighter	fighter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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