Nepal, sentence 361
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.
Nepal is a secular country, as declared by the Constitution of Nepal 2012 (Part 1, Article 4), where secularism 'means religious, cultural freedom, along with the protection of religion, culture handed down from time immemorial (सनातन)'.
Who acts: Nepal, secularism · What happens: be, declare, mean, hand down, protect · To what, where: secular country, religious cultural freedom, culture, religion
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 (Nepal, secularism), 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 | Nepal | Nepal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 country | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 country | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 4 | secular | secular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 country | amod |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 declared | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 declared | mark |
| 8 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 country | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Constitution | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Constitution | det |
| 11 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 declared | obl:agent |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Nepal | case |
| 13 | Nepal | Nepal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Constitution | nmod |
| 14 | 2012 | 2012 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 Constitution | flat |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 Part | punct |
| 16 | Part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 country | parataxis |
| 17 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 Part | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Article | punct |
| 19 | Article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Part | appos |
| 20 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 Article | flat |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 Part | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 means | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 means | advmod |
| 24 | secularism | secularism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 means | nsubj |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 secularism | punct |
| 26 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 country | parataxis |
| 27 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 freedom | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 freedom | punct |
| 29 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 freedom | amod |
| 30 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 means | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 protection | punct |
| 32 | along | along | ADP | _ | 35 protection | case |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 protection | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 protection | det |
| 35 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 freedom | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 religion | case |
| 37 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 protection | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 culture | punct |
| 39 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 freedom | conj |
| 40 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 culture | acl |
| 41 | down | down | ADP | _ | 40 handed | compound:prt |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 time | case |
| 43 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 handed | obl |
| 44 | immemorial | immemorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 handed | conj |
| 45 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 सनातन | punct |
| 46 | सनातन | सनातन | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 immemorial | appos |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 सनातन | punct |
| 48 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 सनातन | punct |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 country | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nepal | a secular country | Part parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | participle | a secular country not said here | the Constitution of Nepal obl:agent | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | secularism | religious cultural freedom and the protection of religion and culture | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Topic | ||||
| 4 | hand down | participle | culture not said here | time | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | protect | religion | nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient |
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, «Nepal», 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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