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title: As of 1987, only one passenger train per week operated between Phnom… — Cambodia · tree and pragmatics
description: As of 1987, only one passenger train per week operated between Phnom Penh and Battambang and a US$141 million project, funded mostly by the Asian Development Bank, has been started to revitalise the languishing rail system that will "(interlink) Cambodia with major industrial and logistics centres i
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# Cambodia, sentence 278

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From Wikipedia, [«Cambodia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia), 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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As of 1987, only one passenger train per week operated between Phnom Penh and Battambang and a US$141 million project, funded mostly by the Asian Development Bank, has been started to revitalise the languishing rail system that will "(interlink) Cambodia with major industrial and logistics centres in Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City".

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**What happens:** operate, fund, start, revitalise · **To what, where:** week, $ project, one passenger train, rail system

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cambodia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Cambodia:278
# text = As of 1987, only one passenger train per week operated between Phnom Penh and Battambang and a US$141 million project, funded mostly by the Asian Development Bank, has been started to revitalise the languishing rail system that will "(interlink) Cambodia with major industrial and logistics centres in Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City".
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	1987	1987	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	passenger	passenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
9	per	per	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	operated	operate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Phnom	Phnom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	Penh	Penh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Battambang	Battambang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	$	$	SYM	$	_	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	141	141	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	_
22	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
23	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	funded	fund	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	Development	Development	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
33	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	revitalise	revitalise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	languishing	languishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	interlink	interlink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
48	Cambodia	Cambodia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
50	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
51	industrial	industrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
53	logistics	logistic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nsubj	_	_
54	centres	centre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nsubj	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	Bangkok	Bangkok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	_
59	Chi	Chi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
60	Minh	Minh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **operate** | participle |  | week *not said here* |  |  |  | between Phnom and Battambang | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fund** | participle |  | a $ project *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Asian Development Bank; mostly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **start** | present · perfect · passive |  | one passenger train per week and a $ project |  |  |  | as 1987 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **revitalise** | to-infinitive |  | the rail system |  |  |  | interlink with major industrial Chi Minh City  logistics  centres in Bangkok and Ho *obl* | tree rules |

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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, «Cambodia», 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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