Nepal, sentence 54
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.
Mauryan emperor Ashoka made a pilgrimage to Lumbini, the Buddha's birthplace according to Buddhist traditions, and erected a pillar, the inscriptions on which mark the starting point for properly recorded history of Nepal.
Who acts: Mauryan emperor, inscriptions · What happens: make, accord, erect, mark, record · To what, where: pilgrimage, Lumbini, pillar, starting point
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 (Mauryan emperor, inscriptions), 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 | Mauryan | mauryan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 emperor | amod |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | Ashoka | Ashoka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 emperor | appos |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pilgrimage | det |
| 6 | pilgrimage | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Lumbini | case |
| 8 | Lumbini | Lumbini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 birthplace | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Buddha | det |
| 11 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 birthplace | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Buddha | case |
| 13 | birthplace | birthplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Lumbini | appos |
| 14 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 traditions | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 according | fixed |
| 16 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 traditions | amod |
| 17 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 birthplace | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 erected | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 erected | cc |
| 20 | erected | erect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pillar | det |
| 22 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 erected | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 inscriptions | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 inscriptions | det |
| 25 | inscriptions | inscription | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pillar | appos |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 mark | nsubj |
| 28 | mark | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 inscriptions | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 point | det |
| 30 | starting | starting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 point | compound |
| 31 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mark | obj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 history | case |
| 33 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 34 recorded | advmod |
| 34 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 history | amod |
| 35 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mark | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Nepal | case |
| 37 | Nepal | Nepal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 history | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Mauryan emperor | a pilgrimage | Lumbini | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pilgrimage=Product | |||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | erect | past | Mauryan emperor not said here | a pillar | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillar=Product | ||||
| 4 | mark | present | the inscriptions | the starting point | for recorded history of Nepal | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent point=Destination | |||
| 5 | record | participle | properly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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