Phnom Penh, sentence 37
From Wikipedia, «Phnom Penh», 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.
Phnom" is Khmer for "hill" and Penh's hill took on the name of the founder, and the area around it became known after the hill.
Who acts: Phnom Khmer · What happens: be, take, know, name · To what, where: Phnom Khmer, name, area, founder
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Phnom Penh». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Phnom Khmer), 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 | Phnom | phnom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Khmer | compound |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Phnom | punct |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Khmer | cop |
| 4 | Khmer | Khmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 hill | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hill | punct |
| 7 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Khmer | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hill | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hill | cc |
| 10 | Penh | Penh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hill | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Penh | case |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hill | conj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 name | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 name | det |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 founder | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 founder | det |
| 19 | founder | founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 name | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 known | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 known | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 area | det |
| 23 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 known | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 area | nmod |
| 26 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 known | aux:pass |
| 27 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 took | conj |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 hill | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hill | det |
| 30 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 known | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Phnom Khmer | for hill and Penh's hill | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | past | Phnom Khmer | the name of the founder | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on name=Destination | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | past · passive | the area around hill | after the hill | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | name in a quote | the founder | nom name «communication 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.
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