Nepal, sentence 145
From Wikipedia, «Nepal», 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.
Saptakoshi, in particular, carries a huge amount of silt out of Nepal but sees extreme drop in Gradient in Bihar, causing severe floods and course changes, and is, therefore, known as the sorrow of Bihar.
Who acts: Saptakoshi, Bihar · What happens: carry, see, cause, know, amount, sorrow · To what, where: huge amount, Nepal, extreme drop, Gradient, severe floods, silt
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nepal». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saptakoshi, Bihar), 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 | Saptakoshi | Saptakoshi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 carries | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Saptakoshi | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 particular | case |
| 4 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Saptakoshi | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Saptakoshi | punct |
| 6 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 amount | det |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 amount | amod |
| 9 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carries | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 silt | case |
| 11 | silt | silt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 amount | nmod |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 Nepal | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Nepal | case |
| 14 | Nepal | Nepal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 amount | nmod |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 sees | cc |
| 16 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 carries | conj |
| 17 | extreme | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 drop | amod |
| 18 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sees | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Gradient | case |
| 20 | Gradient | gradient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sees | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Bihar | case |
| 22 | Bihar | Bihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sees | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 causing | punct |
| 24 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 sees | conj |
| 25 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 floods | amod |
| 26 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 causing | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 changes | cc |
| 28 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 changes | compound |
| 29 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 floods | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 known | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 known | cc |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 known | aux:pass |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 is | punct |
| 34 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 36 known | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 known | punct |
| 36 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 carries | conj |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 sorrow | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sorrow | det |
| 39 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 known | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Bihar | case |
| 41 | Bihar | Bihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 sorrow | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Saptakoshi in particular | a huge amount of silt | Nepal | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent amount=Theme out nepal=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | present | Saptakoshi in particular not said here | extreme drop | Gradient | in Bihar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drop=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | cause | gerund | Saptakoshi in particular not said here | severe floods and course changes | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition flood=Patient | ||||
| 4 | know | present · passive | Saptakoshi in particular not said here | as the sorrow of Bihar; therefore property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as sorrow=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | amount | silt | Nepal | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient out=place | |||||
| 6 | sorrow | Bihar | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=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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