Kathmandu, sentence 132
From Wikipedia, «Kathmandu», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The city of Kathmandu and the surrounding valley are in the Deciduous Monsoon Forest Zone (altitude range of 1200–2100 m), one of five vegetation zones defined for Nepal.
What happens: be, define · To what, where: Forest Zone, five vegetation zones, city
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kathmandu». 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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Kathmandu | case |
| 4 | Kathmandu | Kathmandu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 city | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 valley | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 valley | det |
| 7 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 valley | compound |
| 8 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 city | conj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Zone | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Zone | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Zone | det |
| 12 | Deciduous | Deciduous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Forest | compound |
| 13 | Monsoon | Monsoon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Forest | compound |
| 14 | Forest | Forest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Zone | compound |
| 15 | Zone | Zone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 city | nmod |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 range | punct |
| 17 | altitude | altitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 range | compound |
| 18 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Zone | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 m | case |
| 20 | 1200 | 1200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 m | nummod |
| 21 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 22 2100 | case |
| 22 | 2100 | 2100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 1200 | nmod |
| 23 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 range | nmod |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 range | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 range | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 zones | case |
| 28 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 zones | nummod |
| 29 | vegetation | vegetation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 zones | compound |
| 30 | zones | zone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 one | nmod |
| 31 | defined | define | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 zones | acl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 Nepal | case |
| 33 | Nepal | Nepal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 defined | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 city | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Forest Zone | altitude range of 1200 m appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | define | participle | five vegetation zones not said here | for Nepal | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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