Kathmandu, sentence 319
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.
Every year the stupa attracts many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims who perform full body prostrations in the inner lower enclosure, walk around the stupa with prayer wheels, chant, and pray.
Who acts: stupa, many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims · What happens: attract, perform, walk, pray · To what, where: many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims, full body prostrations, inner lower enclosure, stupa
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 (stupa, many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attracts | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stupa | det |
| 4 | stupa | stupa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attracts | nsubj |
| 5 | attracts | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pilgrims | amod |
| 7 | Tibetan | Tibetan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 pilgrims | compound |
| 8 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pilgrims | amod |
| 9 | pilgrims | pilgrim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 attracts | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 perform | nsubj |
| 11 | perform | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pilgrims | acl:relcl |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prostrations | amod |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prostrations | compound |
| 14 | prostrations | prostration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 perform | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 enclosure | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 enclosure | det |
| 17 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 enclosure | amod |
| 18 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 enclosure | amod |
| 19 | enclosure | enclosure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 perform | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 walk | punct |
| 21 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 perform | conj |
| 22 | around | around | ADP | _ | 24 stupa | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stupa | det |
| 24 | stupa | stupa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 walk | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 wheels | case |
| 26 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wheels | compound |
| 27 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 walk | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 chant | punct |
| 29 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wheels | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pray | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 pray | cc |
| 32 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 attracts | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attracts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | present | the stupa | many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims | year | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pilgrim=Patient | |||
| 2 | perform | present | many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims | full body prostrations | the inner lower enclosure | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prostration=Theme | |||
| 3 | walk | infinitive | many Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims not said here | the stupa | with prayer wheels and chant | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around stupa=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | pray | present | the stupa not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Kathmandu», 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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