Nepal, sentence 417
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.
It has been described as the world's bloodiest festival due to the large-scale slaughter of animals and birds, including buffaloes, goats, sheep, chickens, ducks, pigeons, pigs, rats, and white mice.
What happens: describe, slaughter · To what, where: event, animals
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 described | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 described | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 described | aux:pass |
| 4 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 festival | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 festival | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 world | case |
| 9 | bloodiest | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 festival | amod |
| 10 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 described | obl |
| 11 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 17 slaughter | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 due | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 slaughter | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 scale | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 large | punct |
| 16 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slaughter | compound |
| 17 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 described | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 animals | case |
| 19 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 slaughter | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 birds | cc |
| 21 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 animals | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 buffaloes | punct |
| 23 | including | including | ADP | _ | 24 buffaloes | case |
| 24 | buffaloes | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 birds | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 goats | punct |
| 26 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 animals | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sheep | punct |
| 28 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 goats | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 chickens | punct |
| 30 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 goats | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ducks | punct |
| 32 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 goats | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 pigeons | punct |
| 34 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 slaughter | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 pigs | punct |
| 36 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 slaughter | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 rats | punct |
| 38 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 slaughter | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 mice | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 mice | cc |
| 41 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 mice | amod |
| 42 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 described | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · perfect · passive | event | as the world's bloodiest festival; due the scale slaughter of animals goats and sheep and chickens and ducks and birds and buffaloes and pigeons and pigs and rats; white mice obl | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as festival=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | slaughter | animals goats and sheep and chickens and ducks and birds and buffaloes | nom slaughter «act transitive»: of=patient |
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