Thimphu, sentence 381
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.
These colourfully costumed, masked dances (performed mostly by monks) typically are moral vignettes, or based on incidents from the life of the 9th century Nyingmapa teacher Padmasambhava and other saints.
Who acts: costumed masked dances · What happens: costume, mask, perform, be, base · To what, where: costumed masked dances, moral vignettes, incidents
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 (costumed masked dances), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 dances | det |
| 2 | colourfully | colourfully | ADV | _ | 3 costumed | advmod |
| 3 | costumed | costume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dances | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 costumed | punct |
| 5 | masked | mask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dances | amod |
| 6 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 vignettes | nsubj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 performed | punct |
| 8 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dances | acl |
| 9 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 8 performed | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 monks | case |
| 11 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 performed | obl |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 performed | punct |
| 13 | typically | typically | ADV | _ | 8 performed | advmod |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 vignettes | cop |
| 15 | moral | moral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 vignettes | amod |
| 16 | vignettes | vignette | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 based | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 based | cc |
| 19 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 vignettes | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 incidents | case |
| 21 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 based | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 life | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 life | det |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 based | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 century | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 century | det |
| 27 | 9th | 9th | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 century | amod |
| 28 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 life | nmod |
| 29 | Nyingmapa | Nyingmapa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 teacher | compound |
| 30 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Padmasambhava | nmod:desc |
| 31 | Padmasambhava | Padmasambhava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 century | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 saints | cc |
| 33 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 saints | amod |
| 34 | saints | saint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 Padmasambhava | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 vignettes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | costume | participle | colourfully property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mask | participle | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | perform | participle | this costumed masked dances not said here | by monks; mostly, typically property | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | this costumed masked dances | moral vignettes | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | base | participle | moral vignettes not said here | incidents | from the life of the 9th century Padmasambhava Nyingmapa teacher and other saints | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on incident=Source |
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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