Thimphu, sentence 36
From Wikipedia, «Thimphu», 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.
The Raidāk River raises in the snow fields at an altitude of about 7000 m. It has many tributaries that flow from the Himalayan peaks that largely dictate the topography of the Thimphu valley.
Who acts: Raidāk River, River, many tributaries, that · What happens: raise, have, flow, peak, dictate · To what, where: snow fields, many tributaries, Himalayan, altitude, topography
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Thimphu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raidāk River, River, many tributaries, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 River | det |
| 2 | Raidāk | Raidāk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 River | compound |
| 3 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 raises | nsubj |
| 4 | raises | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 fields | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fields | det |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fields | compound |
| 8 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 raises | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 altitude | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 altitude | det |
| 11 | altitude | altitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 peaks | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 m. | case |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 7000 | advmod |
| 14 | 7000 | 7000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 m. | nummod |
| 15 | m. | m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 altitude | nmod |
| 16 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 m. | acl:relcl |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tributaries | amod |
| 19 | tributaries | tributary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 has | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 flow | nsubj |
| 21 | flow | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tributaries | acl:relcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 Himalayan | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Himalayan | det |
| 24 | Himalayan | Himalayan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 flow | obl |
| 25 | peaks | peak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 raises | parataxis |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 dictate | nsubj |
| 27 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 28 dictate | advmod |
| 28 | dictate | dictate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 peaks | ccomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 topography | det |
| 30 | topography | topography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dictate | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 valley | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 valley | det |
| 33 | Thimphu | Thimphu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 valley | compound |
| 34 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 topography | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | present | the Raidāk River | the snow fields | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in field=Destination | ||||
| 2 | have | present | River | many tributaries | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tributary=Patient | ||||
| 3 | flow | present | many tributaries | the Himalayan | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | peak | present | a altitude of 7000 m. | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | dictate speech: other | present | that | the topography of the Thimphu valley | largely property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent topography=Topic |
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, «Thimphu», 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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