Nepal, sentence 52
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 came to be established as a land of spirituality and refuge in the intervening centuries, played an important role in transmitting Buddhism to East Asia via Tibet, and helped preserve Hindu and Buddhist manuscripts.
Who acts: Nepal · What happens: come, establish, intervene, play, transmit, help · To what, where: important role, Buddhism, East Asia, Hindu
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), 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 | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 established | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 established | aux:pass |
| 5 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 established | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 spirituality | case |
| 10 | spirituality | spirituality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 land | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 refuge | cc |
| 12 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spirituality | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 centuries | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 centuries | det |
| 15 | intervening | intervene | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 centuries | amod |
| 16 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 refuge | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 played | punct |
| 18 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 role | det |
| 20 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 role | amod |
| 21 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 played | obj |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 transmitting | mark |
| 23 | transmitting | transmit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 played | advcl |
| 24 | Buddhism | Buddhism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 transmitting | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Asia | case |
| 26 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Asia | compound |
| 27 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 transmitting | obl |
| 28 | via | via | ADP | _ | 29 Tibet | case |
| 29 | Tibet | Tibet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 transmitting | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 helped | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 helped | cc |
| 32 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 33 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 helped | xcomp |
| 34 | Hindu | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 preserve | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 manuscripts | cc |
| 36 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 manuscripts | amod |
| 37 | manuscripts | manuscript | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 Hindu | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Nepal | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | establish | to-infinitive · passive | Nepal not said here | as a land of spirituality and refuge in the intervening centuries | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» | ||||
| 3 | intervene | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | play | past | Nepal not said here | a important role | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme | ||||
| 5 | transmit | gerund | Nepal not said here | Buddhism | East Asia | via Tibet | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent buddhism=Theme to asia=Destination | ||
| 6 | help | past | Nepal not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | preserve | infinitive | Nepal not said here | Hindu and Buddhist manuscripts | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hindu=Beneficiary |
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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