Kathmandu, sentence 264

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.

Despite continued efforts by governmental bodies, Kathmandu is one of the most polluted cities in Nepal, largely due to overpopulation.

Who acts: Kathmandu · What happens: continue, be, pollute · To what, where: one

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: who acts (Kathmandu), 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	Despite	despite	ADP	_	3 efforts	case
2	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 efforts	amod
3	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	obl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 bodies	case
5	governmental	governmental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bodies	amod
6	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 efforts	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 efforts	punct
8	Kathmandu	Kathmandu	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 one	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 one	cop
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 cities	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cities	det
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 polluted	advmod
14	polluted	pollute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 cities	amod
15	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 Nepal	case
17	Nepal	Nepal	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 cities	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 overpopulation	punct
19	largely	largely	ADV	_	22 overpopulation	advmod
20	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	22 overpopulation	case
21	to	to	ADP	_	20 due	fixed
22	overpopulation	overpopulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cities	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	continue	participle				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	Kathmandu	one	despite continued efforts by governmental bodies; of the polluted cities in Nepal and overpopulation	tree rules
3	pollute	participle				tree rules

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Kathmandu, sentence 264