Kathmandu, sentence 40
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According to the scripture of Swayambhu Purana, present-day Kathmandu was once a huge and deep lake where dwelt mythical serpents (Nāgas) like Karkotaka, Takshaka and Kulika and the Buddhas, bodhisattvas, hermits, yogis, gods and goddesses as well as other celestial beings used to come for ablution in its water.
Who acts: Kathmandu, dwelt mythical serpents · What happens: accord, be, dwell, use, come · To what, where: huge deep lake
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, dwelt mythical serpents), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 scripture | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 scripture | det |
| 4 | scripture | scripture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Swayambhu | case |
| 6 | Swayambhu | Swayambhu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 scripture | nmod |
| 7 | Purana | Purana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Swayambhu | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 day | punct |
| 9 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 present | punct |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scripture | conj |
| 12 | Kathmandu | Kathmandu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lake | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lake | cop |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 lake | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lake | det |
| 16 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lake | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 deep | cc |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lake | amod |
| 19 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 day | acl:relcl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 dwelt | advmod |
| 21 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 serpents | amod |
| 22 | mythical | mythical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 serpents | amod |
| 23 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 used | nsubj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 Nāgas | punct |
| 25 | Nāgas | Nāgas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 serpents | appos |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 Nāgas | punct |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 Karkotaka | case |
| 28 | Karkotaka | Karkotaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Nāgas | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Takshaka | punct |
| 30 | Takshaka | Takshaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Nāgas | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Kulika | cc |
| 32 | Kulika | Kulika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Nāgas | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Buddhas | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Buddhas | det |
| 35 | Buddhas | buddha | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 serpents | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 bodhisattvas | punct |
| 37 | bodhisattvas | bodhisattva | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 serpents | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 hermits | punct |
| 39 | hermits | hermit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 serpents | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 yogis | punct |
| 41 | yogis | yogi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 serpents | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 gods | punct |
| 43 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 serpents | conj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 goddesses | cc |
| 45 | goddesses | goddess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 serpents | conj |
| 46 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 51 beings | cc |
| 47 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 46 as | fixed |
| 48 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 as | fixed |
| 49 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 beings | amod |
| 50 | celestial | celestial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 beings | compound |
| 51 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 serpents | conj |
| 52 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lake | acl:relcl |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 come | mark |
| 54 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 used | xcomp |
| 55 | for | for | ADP | _ | 56 ablution | case |
| 56 | ablution | ablution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 come | obl |
| 57 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 water | case |
| 58 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 water | nmod:poss |
| 59 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 ablution | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scripture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | Kathmandu | a huge deep lake | once property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | dwell | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | use | past | dwelt mythical serpents and the Buddhas and bodhisattvas and hermits and yogis and gods and goddesses as other celestial beings | a huge deep lake not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent lake=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | come | to-infinitive | dwelt mythical serpents and the Buddhas and bodhisattvas and hermits and yogis and gods and goddesses as other celestial beings not said here | for ablution in ablution's water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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