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title: This marked the beginning of the Khmer Empire. — Cambodia · tree and pragmatics
description: This marked the beginning of the Khmer Empire. Who acts: This. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cambodia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cambodia, sentence 8

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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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This marked the beginning of the Khmer Empire.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** mark, begin · **To what, where:** beginning, Khmer Empire

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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: who acts (This), 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:8
# text = This marked the beginning of the Khmer Empire.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Khmer	Khmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | past | This | the beginning of the Khmer Empire |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent beginning=Destination |
| 2 | **begin** |  |  | the Khmer Empire |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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