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title: The Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo (reigned 627–649), a Buddhist conver… — Bhutan · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo (reigned 627–649), a Buddhist convert, extended the Tibetan Empire into Sikkim and Bhutan. Who acts: Songtsen. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bhutan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bhutan, sentence 45

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From Wikipedia, [«Bhutan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo (reigned 627–649), a Buddhist convert, extended the Tibetan Empire into Sikkim and Bhutan.

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**Who acts:** Songtsen · **What happens:** reign, extend · **To what, where:** 627, Tibetan Empire, Sikkim

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bhutan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Songtsen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Bhutan:45
# text = The Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo (reigned 627–649), a Buddhist convert, extended the Tibetan Empire into Sikkim and Bhutan.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Songtsen	Songtsen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
5	Gampo	Gampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	reigned	reign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
8	627	627	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	649	649	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	convert	convert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	extended	extend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Sikkim	Sikkim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Bhutan	Bhutan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign** | participle | Songtsen  the Tibetan king *not said here* | 627 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **extend** | past | Songtsen  the Tibetan king | the Tibetan Empire |  | Sikkim and Bhutan |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent empire=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Bhutan», 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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