Nepal, sentence 68
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.
In the eastern hills, a confederation of Kirat principalities ruled the area between Kathmandu and Bengal.
Who acts: confederation, Kirat principalities · What happens: rule, confederate · To what, where: area, eastern hills
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 (confederation, Kirat principalities), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 hills | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hills | det |
| 3 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hills | amod |
| 4 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ruled | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hills | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 confederation | det |
| 7 | confederation | confederation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ruled | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 principalities | case |
| 9 | Kirat | Kirat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 principalities | compound |
| 10 | principalities | principality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 confederation | nmod |
| 11 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 area | det |
| 13 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ruled | obj |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 Kathmandu | case |
| 15 | Kathmandu | Kathmandu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 area | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Bengal | cc |
| 17 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Kathmandu | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | a confederation of Kirat principalities | the area | the eastern hills | between Kathmandu and Bengal | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Theme | ||
| 2 | confederate | Kirat principalities | nom confederation «state 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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